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 INTRODUCTION
A hostel is a form of low-cost, short EVOLUTION OF
term shared sociable lodging where
HOSTELS
guests can rent a bed, usually a bunk
bed in a dormitory, with shared use In August 1909, Richard Schirrmann,
of a lounge and sometimes a kitchen. a teacher in Germany, first published his Richard Schirrmann

Rooms can be mixed or single-sex idea of inexpensive accommodation for

and have private or shared youth travel after leading a school camping EVOLUTION OF
bathrooms. trip that was derailed by a thunderstorm.
HOSTELS IN INIDA
Private rooms may also be available, On June 1, 1912, in Altena Castle,
but the property must offer Schirrmann opened the first hostel. The The Youth Hostel Movement had found
dormitories to be considered a original hostel rooms are now a museum. its way into India before the partition
hostel. In 1919, he founded the German Youth of the country in 1947. The idea was
Washing machines and clothes dryers Hostel Association. introduced in early forties by the Boy
are often provided for an additional By 1932, Germany had more than 2,000 Scouts and Girls Guides of India,
fee. Some offer yoga studios, hostels recording more than 4.5 million Punjab Circle and the first Youth
cinemas, rooftop clubs, and surf overnights annually. The International Hostel was formally opened at Tara
camps. Youth Hostel Federation (now Hosteling Devi near Shimla on 9 June 1945
International) was founded in October by H E Sir Bertrand Glancy, Chief
1932. Scout and Governor of the Punjab.
In 1961, rise of Urban Hostels-the trend of In 1977, after YHA of India was
setting up nationally owned facilities established and its first hostel was
started with the opening of the first urban
opened at Chanakya Puri in Delhi.
hostel.
in 2000’s, significant modernisation
In 2008, The network reached over 1.5
of hostels had occurred.
billion overnights.

 CLASSIFICATION OF
OBJECTIVES
HOSTELS
To create a familiar environment for
1. Cheap Hostels students & young working professional’s
2. Homely and Cozy Hostels by providing proper facilities & also a
3. Boutique Hostels

structure with good architectural senses.

4. Party Hostels To identify the challenges in venturing
5. Traditional Youth Hostels a modern drome's with all required
6. Activity Hostels facilities for student , a viable business
7. 5 Star Hostels model and analyze the marketing

strategies adopted for long term
business In India.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REGULAR AND
ARCHITECTURE HOSTEL To investigate the scope modern
amenities in student housing
To analyze the importance of
Recreational Areas in sports in Student
hostel.
To create relaxed and easy atmosphere
through design, architecture , expression
to make the complex retreat from city
life.
Integration of built form with landscape.

 BASIC REQUIREMENTS OF HOSTEL

Sleeping Area SPATIAL ARRANGEMENT
•Good quality beds and mattresses. Dining Area
OF HOSTEL
•Well ventilated rooms, well-lit and well- •Balanced diet and a variety in the student’s
spaced. meals.

Bedrooms in hostels consist of 4-6 (maximum 8)

•A wardrobe in which each student can •Monday to Friday: breakfast and dinner to rooms in groups with a leader room (one bed, one
store their clothes to avoid them living out be offered. Saturday, Sunday & Public folding bed as day couch), and in guest houses 2-4
of their suitcases. holidays: 3 meals should be offered bedrooms, leader/teacher accommodation 1-2
Living and Study Area •A dining area: so that students are rooms with work area, family rooms with 4-6 beds.
•Conducive Study area: equivalent to the discouraged from eating in their rooms. Boys and girls are separated, mostly allocated
number of residents in the hostel. •Storage facilities for the food. Fridge and rooms starting from the head of a corridor with
•General order and cleanliness: shoes in pantry. several dividing doors, which can be locked if
their place, chairs back in place etc. •Clean drinking water. required (for flexibility). Showers and washbasins
•Recreation area within the hostel. Emergency & General amenities connected to the rooms, separate WC (accessible
•Organized activities that encourage hostel •First aid kit. The hostel manager ought to for disabled people), lockable luggage store.
residents to interact. have a means of rushing students to hospital Cleaning rooms on each floor and shoe
•A means of resolving grievances: list of or clinic in case they fall ill at night store/cleaning room.
do’s and don’ts, values upheld in the hostel. It has kitchen serving individual portions or group
•Fire Detection (Areas to be covered-
meals, serving trolleys, no self-service counter,
•Gender exclusive hostels kitchens, risk rooms, staircase enclosures,
utility room, staff lounge.
Washroom and Hygiene basement/cellar, each final exit door, etc.)
It has multiple dining rooms, multi-purpose areas
•Ratio of bathrooms/ toilets Max of 1 to 5 •Fire extinguisher
with individual corners, cafeteria, lecture room,
students •Emergency contact of each of the students’
entrance hall/reception and office for
•Regular fumigation. To avoid parasites and next of kin
warden.
other insects •Wi-Fi
It has outdoor camping area; parking for
•Cleanliness/ orderliness. •Laundry area buses, cars and 2 wheelers; play area and
•Constant water supply/ water storage •Lockers garden.
facilities. Emergency Lighting
•Hot water supply.
 SERVICES PROVIDED PERSONAL WASHING
LIGHTING VENTILATION WATER SUPPLY FACILITIES
Natural Lighting •All habitable rooms, kitchens, •Each bedroom shall be •Each bedroom shall be provided
•All habitable rooms shall be provided bathrooms and water closet provided with a supply of cold with a wash hand basin together
compartments shall have a minimum running water suitable for with its own continuous supplies
of hot and
cold running water,
with an area of clear glazing situated
in either a window and/or door, floor to ceiling height of 2.3m. drinking purposes. The tap shall
•All habitable rooms shall be be suitably marked “Drinking and of minimum dimension
equivalent in total to at least 1/10th of
ventilated directly to the external air Water”. 560mm x 430mm.
the floor area of the room.
by a window, the openable area of •The water pressure to all •A readily accessible bathroom or
•All kitchens, bathrooms and water
which shall be equivalent to at least fitments shall comply with the a shower room shall be provided
closet compartments shall comply with 1/20th of the floor area of the minimum requirements always on every floor where bedroom
above. room. laid down by the relevant water accommodation is located. The
•Where this is not practicable, •All bathrooms and water closet authority. bath/shower shall be sited in a
adequate artificial lighting shall be compartments shall have mechanical •All water supplies shall be proper room and shall be
provided to the satisfaction of Hostel. ventilation provided a minimum of
suitably protected from frost provided in the following ratios
Artificial Lighting three air changes. Such an
damage. for each occupied floor:
•All habitable rooms, kitchens, installation shall be fitted with an
1-5 persons 1 bathroom or
bathrooms, water closet overrun device for a minimum of 20
DRAINAGE AND SANITARY shower room
compartments, staircases, landings and minutes and be connected to a
CONVINIENCES 6-10 persons 2 bathrooms or
passages shall be adequately lighted by lighting circuit of the room.
•All above and below ground shower rooms
electricity, none of which will be •Permanent means of ventilation in
drainage shall comply with the 11-15 persons 3 bathrooms or
provided via a time switch and shall be the form of a flue, airbrick, hit and
shower rooms
always available. miss ventilator or louvered window requirements of the Building
shall be provided in all kitchens, •The hot and cold-water supplies
•There shall be sufficient switches to Regulations currently in force.
bathrooms, water closet shall be exclusive (unless the
operate the artificial lighting on each •Separate male and female
compartments and any other rooms rental or charge for
landing, corridor or passage and each accommodation shall be accommodation includes the
containing either cooking and/or required to the satisfaction of
switch should allow all corridors, washing facilities supply of hot water), and
passages and stairways to be Hostel. available always.
illuminated at the same time.
 AREA DISTRIBUTION AND SPACE DETAILS
BEDROOM
1. A minimum floor space per bed (or bunk) of 4 square meters (44
square feet) to be provided. This area will be calculated based on the
maximum dimensions of the room divided by the number of bed bases in
the room.

Bed bases will be totaled as follows:

Bunk bed = 1 Single bed = 1 Double bed = 2
2. A minimum ceiling height of 2 meters (6’7”). Sloping eaves or
combed ceilings are acceptable, providing these do not restrict
reasonable free movement through the major part of the room
3. All bedrooms to have an external opening window to provide natural
light and ventilation. All windows to have opaque curtains or blinds for Anthropometric data of
privacy and light exclusion. Bunk Bed Dimensions of Bunk Bed
4. Bedrooms to be adequately lit for the safety and well being of

guests.
5. Beds / bed spaces must be at least 1.9m (6’3”) x 0.76m (2’6”)
(including alpine platforms).
6. The vertical distance between upper and lower beds in any bunk
must not be less than 0.75m (30”).
7. Bedrooms – where a separate living room is provided. A single
person room should be of minimum 6.5m² and increasing to 10m² for 2
persons.
8. Bedrooms – without any separate living room provided. A single
person room should be of minimum 8.5m² and increasing to 12m² for 2 Twin Bedroom layout
persons.
9. Communal living rooms should be of a minimum size 10m² which may

Dorm Layout
serve up to a maximum of 8 persons.

 AREA DISTRIBUTION AND SPACE DETAILS

KITCHEN
1. The kitchen to be designated a non-smoking area with
appropriate signage.
2. A smoke alarm or heat detector to be installed.

3. A fire extinguisher suitable for kitchen fires and a fire blanket

to be provided.
4. Kitchen to be properly equipped with an adequate number of
utensils (pots, pans, food preparation knives etc.) which enables,
as a minimum, 20% of the maximum number of guests to make
food at the same time.
5. A minimum of 4 cooking rings to be provided. Where the total
number of bed spaces exceeds 32 an additional cooking ring is
to be provided for every further 8 bed spaces. i.e., 32 beds: 4 Kitchen layout
cooking rings; 40 beds: 5 cooking rings; 48 beds: 6 cooking

rings; 56 beds: 7 cooking rings etc.

6. An oven or microwave and a grill to be provided. Each of these
to be provided at a minimum ratio of 1 per 50 guests
accommodated.
7. Facilities for boiling water to be provided e.g., kettle or
geyser.
8. Dry food storage facilities to be provided, appropriate for the
number of guests accommodated, e.g., open shelving or
cupboards.
Anthropometric data of
9. Kitchen area to have effective ventilation.
10. A covered waste disposal bin and liners to be provided. Kitchen Dimensions of Kitchen

 AREA DISTRIBUTION AND SPACE DETAILS

BATHROOM, WC AND SHOWER
FACILITIES
1. Shower, washbasins and WCs to bed space ratios must

meet or exceed minimum levels:

1 Star 1:10; 2 Stars: 1:10; 3 Stars: 1:6; 4 Stars: 1:6
2.There must be privacy between sexes for
washing/showers and toilet facilities and wherever
possible between members of the same sex and clearly
designated.
3. All bath, shower and WC rooms to be adequately
ventilated
4.Hand drying facilities and soap required in all public
WC facilities.
5. All WCs to be lidded with a toilet roll holder, toilet
paper and sanitary disposal bin (where appropriate)
provided
6. Bath/Shower facilities to have clothes hooks and
soap trays within each cubicle.
7. A shelf and electric razor point (or adapter available) Anthropometric data
with a mirror and towel rail close by to be provided. of Toilet
Anthropometric data
of Shower Area

 BUILDING BYE-LAWS
PLOT SIZE-5035 sq.m(1.24 acres) with a 12M
access road
FACILITIES FOR DISABLED STUDENTS
Plot size being more than 2500 sq.m, the following
Generally, purpose built adapted and adaptable facilities for

disabled residents should be provided at an overall ratio of

are the setbacks and height stipulations
1:20 in any development. It is unnecessary, and undesirable, Parking provision-Stilt +2 or more cellar floors
to group adapted rooms in a single block or all adapted (height of stilt floor not less than 2.5m)
rooms on the ground floor. Height Permissible up to 18mMinimum front setback
Where adapted bedrooms are provided suitable en-suite be left for a 12m access road 3mMinimum setback to
washing, showering and toilet facilities shall also be be left on the other sides are 7m
provided. Height of the stilt floor should not be less than 2.5m
Access to and full use of kitchen facilities and social areas In the stilt floor parking, a watchman room and 2
shall also be provided. toilets with max.
All rooms within a residential development shall be accessible
Built up area of 25sq.m may be allowed.
by a wheelchair user. i.e., not just the flat containing an
For parking services in basements and upper floors,
adapted room.
Due to design constraints and viability, townhouse at least two ramps of minimum 3.6m width or one
developments may not always be fully accessible on all floors. ramp of minimum 5.4m width and adequate slope 1 in
However, all ground floor accommodation, including WC and 8 shall be provided.
kitchen/dining facilities shall be designed to meet the needs Minimum width of a driveway shall be 4.5mVisitor’s
of disabled occupiers and visitors. parking shall be provided with minimum 10% of the
parking area.
Thank you
SOURCES
Wikipedia
Neufert Architect's Data
TSS (Interior Design)
National Building Code
hostelgeeks.com
Normal standards for Youth Hostel.