Sunday, 2 March 2014

Hospital Design - general

"...Creating an environment where their stress gives away to security is primary; technical support is a means to restore health, not the source of a humane environment. From this perspective, the architect's task is twofold: to synthesize program, structure, and services into a smoothly functioning hospital, and to mold an environment that appears to be simpler than it actually is. Sontag writes that we should de-amplify illness. In their own way, hospital architects do the same: they make the whole look like less than the sum of its parts. ... Philip Monteleoni, an associate partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, describes the parallel circulation routes of a large hospital as a key to understanding its nature. They segregate the diverse users of the building -- staff, visitors, and patients -- until the "medical moment" of their appointed convergence. ... For pragmatic and psychological reasons, patients ought not see all that the hospital comprises. New York's Bellevue Hospital, with a staff of 5000, is designed so that a patient never realizes how large the institution is, lest he or she feel like a mere statistic. Robert Douglas, formerly a consultant for healthcare architecture, says that as the size of the hospital increases, so should the simplicity of its circulation."
 
Article from Architecture History - a visit to an historical 'insane asylum'
 
"Otto Wagner and the Steinhof Psychiatric Hospital: Architecture as Misunderstanding " an interesting  article in Art Bulletin
 
 Design issues in healthcare - adolescent patients article in Environment and Behaviour

The aesthetics of general hospitals (this looked pretty good) - article in the International Journal of Nursing Studies

"Environmental sources of satisfaction among hospital patients" - an article in Journal of Applied Social Psychology

"Relationship between Color and Emotion: A Study of College Students" an article in College Student Journal

"Enhancing the therapeutic potential of hospital environments by increasing the personal control and emotional comfort of hospitalized patients" - article in Journal of Applied Nursing Studies

General article on hospital design  - Environmental Design and Construction

Interviews of experts within various aesthetic fields describing their evaluations of aesthetics in hospitals. Article in Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences

 Healing Spaces: Elements of Environmental Design That Make an Impact on Health. - article in Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine

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