架构师提供的文本描述。该中心起源于1998年邀请的建筑竞赛。先进输血医学研究基金会(AdvancedTransfusionMedicalResearchFoundation)是一家非盈利的慈善信托基金，该基金会的发起人设想了一个地方，可以通过专业管理，以负担得起的成本，彻底改变自愿采血和血液成分“普拉萨马”是这个国家的第一个，位于艾哈迈达巴德。作为一项开拓性的努力，这座建筑必须是一种新型的“类型”，其挑战是将一个服务密集型医疗实体变成一个有趣、直观的容器，方法是消除与医疗设施相关的排斥，并将其转化为一个诱人的公共领域。位于艾哈迈达巴德市公司捐赠的一个没有特色的角落，该网站一开始并没有提供具体的背景。

Text description provided by the architects. The Center has its origins in an Invited Architectural Competition in 1998. The promoters, Advanced Transfusion Medical Research Foundation, a not for profit charitable trust, envisioned a place that would revolutionalize voluntary blood collection and blood component disbursal without replacement, at affordable costs through professional management. ‘Prathama’ was to be the country’s first, situated in Ahmedabad. Being a pioneering endeavor, the building had to be a new ‘type’, where the challenge was to make a service intensive medical entity into a playful, intuitive receptacle, by removing the repulsion associated with medical facilities and transforming it into an inviting public domain. Located on a non-descript corner plot donated by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, the site offered no specific context to begin with.

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该计划是一种合理的一步的干预的结果，最终形成了基本的定义线。外观‘皮肤’呈现‘简单和一个’的形象，一旦入口引入一个四层的“空白”，它就会分解成子空间。从这个缓冲器中，人们会从视觉上意识到所进行的活动。玻璃墙消失了，展示了整个过程，

The plan is an outcome of a rational step-by-step intervention that resulted in the basic defining lines. The exterior ‘Skin’ that presents an image of ‘the simple and one’, disintegrates into sub spaces as soon as the entrance ushers one into a fourstorey ‘Void’. From this buffer, one becomes visually conscious of the activities carried out. The glass wall disappears showcasing the complete ‘Process’,

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像冷冻机、会议室和Hangout阳台这样的亮点，通过将它们突出在玻璃墙外，更加突出了这一点。站在沉默和稳重，“支持”的服务块，默默地满足过程的必要要求。这座建筑的本质体现在它内在的本质上，它是一个植根于自然界之外的物体。

Highlights like the Blast Freezer, Conference room and a Hangout balcony are further accentuated by protruding them out of the glass wall. Standing mute and staid, The ‘Support’ block of services, silently feeds the Process with its requisite demands. The building stands manifested in its intrinsic nature within and an object rooted in nature without.

该项目专门处理了对空间和经济的限制。通过定制设计和在当地制造所有门窗、模块化家具(包括钢工作站)、压力机金属储藏室、双层玻璃隔断、甚至门把，成本一直保持在极低的水平。此外，建筑师的工作范围还包括某些产品设计项目，如礼堂椅和全自动捐赠椅、冷热水分配器、紧凑的冷藏室血堆。

The project has specifically dealt with restrictions of space and economy. The costs have been kept abysmally low by custom designing and locally fabricating all doors, windows, modular furniture including steel work stations, press metal storages, double glazed partitions, even door handles. Moreover, the Architect’s Scope of work included certain product design items like the auditorium chairs and fully automatic donor chairs, hot and cold-water dispensers, compact cold room blood stacking & identification system & moving ladders for cleaning glass, even two specially designed blood donation vans. Large fixed furniture like conference, reception and pantry tables are all set insitu concrete as also the 5 m long entrance gates. The staircases are composed of precast concrete units. The false ceiling and acoustic paneling in auditorium is in lightweight concrete with insulating vermiculite. All the wooden planks used for exposed form work was salvaged and was later used for the auditorium staging.

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雨水被收集并引导到渗滤槽中，水体是一个以Koi鱼和水百合为主体的生态系统。该项目在12个月内完成，建造费用低于每平方米200美元，包括民用、电气、管道、空调、室内装修和工地开发。

Rainwater is collected and directed into percolation tanks and the water body is a self-sustained ecosystem with Koi fishes and water lilies. The project was completed in 12 months and was built at a cost of under $200 per SqM., including civil, electrical, plumbing, air-conditioning, interiors and site development.

建筑能跨越边界，成为所有的“设计”吗？建筑能成为社会动机的催化剂吗？建筑可以是一种低成本的追求，而不必出现在这种情况下吗？建筑能把仅仅的设施改造成公共机构吗？这些是设计试图解决的一些问题。

Can architecture traverse the boundaries and become all incompassing ‘Design’? Can architecture become a catalyst in motives that are social? Can architecture be a low cost pursuit without having to appear so? Can architecture transform mere facilities into public institutions? These are some of the issues the design attempts to address.