ABSTRACT
The resolution of the different traffic patterns in a hospital, coupled with the varied requirements of the uncomfortable human beings who are patients in a hospital are enough problems to task the imagination of an architect. Add to this are the rapid changing medical technology which render most hospitals obsolete even before they become functional and the problem of hospital design becomes an enomous one indeed. The goal of this thesis is therefore, to create an ever-lasting hospital that will satisfy medical and spetial requirements which are subject to continual change as technology changes. This call for the application of an architectural principle of FLEXIBILITY - INTERNAL FLEXIBILITY AND EXTERNAL EXTENDABILITY. The resultant design of this expendable Specialist Teaching Hospital is expected to be highly EFFICIENT in function, and AESTHETIC in appeal as beauty is recognised to have a therapeutic value.