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Designing for Zero Downtime: Keeping Hospitals Running During Renovations

Renovating a live hospital might be the toughest design challenge in healthcare.

Care doesn’t pause, ICUs don’t shift, and every detour, partition, and temporary space has clinical consequences.

In this short piece, Kshititi Nagarkar, Lead Architect - Shree Designs, shares five field-tested principles from real projects that helped hospitals stay fully functional while being rebuilt around the clock — from infection control to circulation logic to reducing staff cognitive load.

If you’re involved in healthcare operations, facilities, or clinical planning, we’d love to hear how your teams handle live-site upgrades — what’s worked, what hasn’t, and where the biggest friction lives.

🔗 Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/djmJifch

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Designing for Night-Shift Healthcare Workers

Hospitals don’t sleep — and neither do the people who care through the night.

Night-shift healthcare workers shoulder clinical responsibility when the body is naturally at its lowest. Alertness dips, noise feels sharper, isolation intensifies — yet critical decisions must still be made.

Good hospital design can change that.

From circadian-aware lighting to intuitive night workflows, restorative staff niches, acoustically balanced corridors, and secure nighttime circulation, thoughtful architecture plays a direct role in reducing fatigue, improving safety, and supporting the emotional well-being of night-shift teams.

At Shree Designs, we believe that designing for healing means designing for the healers too — including the ones working when the world is asleep.

Let’s build spaces that care for caregivers.

Read More in our blog post: https://www.shreedesigns.in/dnsHW

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Designing Entrances for Wheelchair Ease

A hospital entrance is the very first barrier - or the very first relief - for a wheelchair user.

From ramp gradients and landing platforms to door width, glazing, and zero-threshold detailing, accessibility isn’t about compliance. It’s about comfort, confidence, and autonomy.

Let’s design entrances that welcome everybody, every mobility need.

LinkedIn Article

Designing for Rapid Deployment: Pop-Up Hospitals

Hospitals can’t wait for blueprints when emergencies strike.

From natural disasters to public health crises, healthcare systems now need facilities that can be deployed, dismantled, or relocated - fast.

Kshititi Nagarkar, Lead Architect, Shree Designs, explores how pop-up hospitals and modular healthcare units are transforming the future of emergency preparedness.
✔ Key principles for rapid deployment design
✔ Balancing speed with safety and compliance
✔ How modularity builds long-term resilience

📖 Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/dd5mF9Jr

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Building Better Hospitals: The Role of Healthcare Space Programming

Good hospital design starts long before the walls go up.
It starts with the questions we ask during programming.

In her latest article, Kshititi Nagarkar, Principal Architect Shree Designs shares why healthcare space programming is the most critical (and most overlooked) phase of planning a hospital. And how it aligns medical needs with built reality - before costly mistakes happen.
✔ Designing for flow, function, and future needs
✔ Avoiding inefficiencies and compliance risks
✔ Real examples from our work at Shree Designs

If you’re involved in planning, expanding, or upgrading a healthcare facility - this is worth a read.
Read the full article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/building-better-hospitals-role-healthcare-space-programming-nalmf

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Sliding doors for patient rooms

A quiet upgrade that makes a big difference.
Sliding doors in patient rooms aren’t just space-savers - they improve accessibility, reduce noise, and support privacy. Ideal for small clinics, ICUs, and mobility-sensitive zones.

🚪 Move smarter, not harder.

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Multi-Functional Rooms

When space is limited, flexibility isn’t a luxury - it’s a necessity.

Multi-functional rooms allow hospitals and clinics to do more with less. Whether it’s a consult room that converts into a counselling space, or a procedure room that doubles as isolation during a surge, the right design choices unlock utility without sacrificing comfort or compliance.

In this post, we explore how to plan for clinical adaptability without making the space feel compromised.

🧩 One room. Multiple uses. Zero confusion.

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Viewless Rooms and Recovery

Not every patient gets a window - but every patient deserves support.

Studies show that access to natural views can reduce recovery time, stress, and even medication needs. But in large hospitals, viewless rooms are often unavoidable.

So how do we design these spaces to promote healing?

In our latest post, we share how smart lighting, material choices, and sensory cues can make windowless rooms feel less closed-in - and more care-driven.

🛏️ Because healing isn't just clinical - it's also environmental.