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Leydecker / Designing The Patient Room 978-3-03821-493-9 May 2017
Leydecker / Designing The Patient Room 978-3-03821-493-9 May 2017
Paper:
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Equipment and fittings – chairs and tables
Bathroom
developments and trends 162
163
Corporate interiors
Marketing for specific target groups
Hello Fat Matt 1.1, 135 g/m 2
33 Further fittings and conveniences 93 Medical tourism 164 Billing services
33 Blinds, shades and privacy curtains 93 Healing environments 164 Durability and hospital operations
Lithography
33 Accessibility and Evidence-Based Design (EBD) 165 Hospital 4.0 and upholding the human
Oriol Rigat, Barcelona
34 Corridors 93 Patient hotels perspective
34 Doors 94 Psychosomatics 166 Sustainability
Printing
35 Walls 94 Wellness
Offsetdruckerei Grammlich, Pliezhausen
36 Floors 94 Healthcare for the elderly
36 Ceilings and lighting 95 Universal Design
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data
36 Lounges 95 Rules and regulations 168 Acknowledgements
A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the
39 Waiting areas 96 Technological advances 169 About the authors
Library of Congress.
40 Reception areas and nursing stations 97 Politics 170 Illustration credits
97 Multi-cultural aspects
Bibliographic information published by the German National
Library
The German National Library lists this publication in the 44 Key components of the 98 Selected projects
Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are
available on the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de.
design task 100 Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage
45 A complex design task Hospital, Winfield, Illinois, USA
This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether 45 Design quality 104 Franziskus Hospital, Berlin, Germany
the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the 46 Colour 108 King Juan Carlos University Hospital,
rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, 48 Material authenticity Madrid, Spain
broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in other ways, and 51 Multi-sensory design 110 Siloah-Oststadt-Heidehaus Clinic,
storage in databases. 52 Haptic Hanover, Germany
For any kind of use, permission of the copyright owner must be 53 Indoor air quality – temperature 114 Aiyuhua Hospital for Women and Children,
obtained. 55 Indoor air quality – smell Beijing, China
55 Smells as indicators of pollutants 118 Patient Room of the Future Prototype,
This publication is also available as an e-book (ISBN PDF 55 Floor coverings Berlin, Germany
978-3-03821-110-5) and in a German language edition 56 Sustainability and the environment 120 Bayt Abdullah Children’s Hospice (BACCH),
(ISBN 978-3-03821-492-2). 59 Construction details Sulaibikhat, Kuwait
59 Sound 124 Bumrungrad International Hospital,
© 2017 Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH, Basel 59 Acoustics Bangkok, Thailand
P.O. Box 44, 4009 Basel, Switzerland 60 Privacy screening 128 Maggie’s Centres, United Kingdom
Part of Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston 60 Light 132 Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, USA
61 Smart applications 134 Rems-Murr Hospital, Winnenden, Germany
Printed on acid-free paper produced from chlorine-free pulp. 64 Designing a salutogenic hospital and 138 The Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery ,
TCF ∞ patient’s room Khartoum, Sudan
Alan Dilani 142 Hospital Engineering Laboratory at the
Printed in Germany Fraunhofer-inHaus-Centre,
Duisburg, Germany
ISBN 978-3-03821-493-9 144 Patient Room 2020 Prototype,
New York, USA
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Rems-Murr
1 Muted colours and subtle natural The new Rems-Murr Hospital includes both entire premium wards and indi-
tones have been used to create a
comfortable healing environment
vidual premium rooms in other wards that fulfil private health insurance criteria
with a hotel-like atmosphere. for comfort and a corresponding hotel-room atmosphere in all respects.
Hospital
2 A high-quality, discreetly lettered
door opens onto a patient room. Evidence-Based Design has been used to create a healing environment
3 Green colour accents – a wall
that embodies the clinic’s medical care philosophy and provides optimal
niche with a photographic detail conditions for patients to recover. The design language draws inspiration
of grasses behind hygienic glass
and a comfortable armchair with
from nature and the image of long grasses swaying in the wind. Different sand
textured upholstery and earth tones continue the natural theme, contrasting pleasingly with fresh
green accents to create a harmonious balance.
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cifically to the tastes of the predominantly younger clientele. All hygienic grasses also recurs in the
premium room’s bathroom.
requirements are fulfilled down to the last detail with clearly delineated, easy-
to-clean, hygienic surface materials. A variable lighting concept creates a 5–6 Sketches of the patient
room interior
warm atmosphere, even on grey days. Images of nature and discreet surface
textures make subtle reference to nature, while points of colour in the (non- 7 Warm colours evoke vitality.
brown) maternity room wallpaper lend the room a youthful, joyful atmosphere. 8 Transparent plastic contrasts
with the vertical grass-like
texture of the wall covering.
The technical equipment – which patients often find disconcerting – is hid-
den behind a vertical panel at the head of the bed. Generous views of the 9 Calm, clear interiors with a
view into a room
surrounding landscape round off the pleasant atmosphere of the room,
but patients can also darken the room by closing the curtains as required. 10 The maternity ward room for
private healthcare patients
addresses the needs of the
mother, child and visitors.
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