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Our experience of hospitals and medical clinics is almost wholly determined by their architecture. The spatial and sensory qualities of our surroundings influence how we behave and relate to others, while also affecting our spiritual and physical wellbeing. It is proven that an abundance of daylight...
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John Wiley & Sons,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Profile ;
number 246 Architectural design ; volume 87, number 2 |
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| Summary: |
Our experience of hospitals and medical clinics is almost wholly determined by their architecture. The spatial and sensory qualities of our surroundings influence how we behave and relate to others, while also affecting our spiritual and physical wellbeing. It is proven that an abundance of daylight, access to fresh air and to low-stress uncluttered spaces aids the reduction of anxiety, elevates the mood and improves patients' outcomes. Sustainability is permeating all areas of architecture, and designers are investigating the connections between patient experience, wellbeing and long-term thinking in healthcare design. This issue of AD seeks out innovative and varied sustainable architectural responses to designing for health, such as: integrating sensory gardens and landscapes into the care environment; specifying local materials and passive technologies; and reinvigorating ageing postwar facilities. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches to sustainability are explored. Design solutions range from those employing passive thermal strategies and recycled materials in construction to those giving careful consideration to the manner in which a structure is positioned on site and orientated. Each design makes its own unique interpretation of the sustainable brief. Drawing on international built examples that excel in combining the highest level of healthcare with an enlightened approach to architectural design, this AD highlights the importance of designing for the long term, creating inspiring spaces, and connecting healthcare to the wider community. |
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"March/April 2017." "02:2017"--Spine. |
| Carrier Form: | 136 pages : color illustrations, plans ; 29 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9781119162131 (paperback) : 1119162130 (paperback) 9781119162155 (hardback) 1119162157 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | RA967 |
| CLC: | TU246 |
| Call Number: | TU246/D457-1 |
| Contents: |
Interconnected approaches to sustainable architecture / Decoding modern hospitals: an architectural history / Superarchitecture: building for better health / Lean, green and healthy: landscape and health / Salutogenic and biophilic design as therapeutic approaches to sustainable architecture / Environmentally smart design: designing for social wellbeing across the city and in the workplace / Humanist principles, sustainable design and salutogenics: a new form of healthcare architecture / Maggie's architecture: the deep affinities between architecture and health / Healthy patient rooms in hospitals: emotional wellbeing naturally / Can architecture heal? Buildings as instruments of health / Multisensory architecture: the dynamic interplay of environment, movement and social function / Architects as first responders: portable healthcare architecture in a climate-altered world / A sense of coherence: supporting the healing process / Cultivating the 'in-between': humanising the modern healthcare experience / regenerative agents: patient-focused architectures / Counterpoint: transforming hospitals: building restorative healthcare / |