Karnal Medical Centre (KMC) a twenty-five bed hospital in Sector 7, Karnal, Haryana, is a dedicated Paediatric and Ear-Nose-Throat (ENT) centre with specialist facilities including an Operation Theatre (OT) and Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). With development control norms that allow for mixed use, a three-bedroom residential unit is planned on the second floor for use by the Founding Doctors, a husband - wife team.
SUSTAINABLE TOWNSHIP, DALMIA BHARAT, BELGAUM
Appointed to prepare a Detailed Masterplan for the new Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Township (DCBL) in Belgaum, Karnataka, HTAU was posed with the following challenges: 1. How do you create a ‘place with a soul’ and an identity with only 500 residents?; 2. How do you create a model for making small settlements function in an inherently sustainable manner…for perpetuity?; 3. How do you create a township that can grow, change and adapt over the life-span of a cement plant of 50 – 100 years keeping the above alive? Our approach was defined by 1. Creating a township with a distinct ‘urban’ identity but in touch with its rural setting; 2. Offering all members of the community “choice” – choice of how to live – a theme, we believe, is intrinsically linked to ‘quality of life’; and 3. In doing so, allowing each member, across gender and age, to enhance their well being without jeopardizing the interests of others, and 4. Adopting a ‘closed-loop’ approach to resource management.
