This is a 50,000 sq.m (600 bedded) teaching hospital for Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Educational Society at Dharwad, Karnataka. By creating a very warm, welcoming, healthy, green, natural ambience in the well lit landscaped arrival atrium and other functional spaces, all patients experience a feeling of healthy reassurance and well being. It balances this ambience with appropriate circulation and locationing of various functions and services. As someone said “this building and its internal space does not look or feel like a hospital but works pretty well as a hospital.”