DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS:

Efficiency and Cost-Effectiveness

In order to maximize productivity among employees, a well-designed hospital should: reduce

the distance that workers must travel between frequently used areas; allow for visual patient
supervision; provide an efficient food and supply logistics system (as well as waste removal);
maximize the use of multipurpose spaces; and consolidate spaces when practical.

Flexibility and Expandability

Medical needs as well as treatment approaches are continually evolving. Thus, hospitals should
use standard room sizes and layouts, modular mechanical and electrical systems that are easily
accessible and adaptable open-ended with well-planned paths for future expansion, and
compliant with basic concepts of space planning and layout.

Therapeutic Environment

A hospital ought to feel secure, welcoming, and at ease to both patients and visitors. An
important part of this endeavor to create a healing environment is the architect or designer. This
can be achieved, for instance, by using promising unique colors and textures, letting in an
abundance of natural light when possible, giving every patient bed a view of the outside, and
creating a "way-finding" procedure for each location.

Cleanliness and Sanitation

Hospitals require to be straightforward to keep tidy and manage. This is made possible by
strong finishes that are suitable for each functional space; meticulous attention to detail in
elements like doorframes, casework, and finish transitions to prevent dirt-attracting and
difficult-to-clean seams; and sufficient maintenance spaces that are strategically placed.

Accessibility

Every area—inside and outside—must adhere to the Department of Health minimum

requirements and standards. It should also make sure that walkways and corridors are
sufficiently wide to accommodate two wheelchairs and that gradients are adequately level to
permit simple mobility.
Security and Safety

Hospitals are particularly vulnerable to terrorism because of their prominent location; therefore,
security and safety measures need to be integrated into the design process, taking into account
the safety of staff and patients as well as hospital property and assets, including medications.

Sustainability

Hospitals are large public structures that have an enormous effect on the environment as well
as the community as a whole. Because of their high energy and water consumption along with
their high production of waste, hospital design and construction must take sustainable design
into consideration.

DESIGN SOLUTIONS:

1. Integrating a logistics system, which includes elevators, manual or automated carts, and
gravity chutes, is crucial for efficient food handling, clean supplies, waste disposal, and
space utilization.
2. Support spaces for nearby functional units to share and multi-purpose spaces are
introduced for effective operations.
3. Based on a thorough functional program that outlines the hospital's anticipated activities,
grouping or combining functional areas with comparable system needs is also integrated
for an essential use of optimal adjacencies.
4. Including an open-ended design with well-planned potential expansion directions, such
as placing "soft spaces" like administrative departments near "hard spaces" like clinical
laboratories.
5. Using familiar and culturally relevant materials wherever consistent with sanitation and
other functional needs
6. Using bright and diverse colors and textures, while considering that some hues are
unsuitable and might interfere with provider evaluations of patients' pallor and skin tones,
disorient older or disabled patients, or upset patients and staff, particularly some mental
patients.
7. Allowing as much natural light as possible and employing color-corrected lighting in
indoor locations that closely resemble natural daylight
8. Providing views of nature from every patient bed and wherever possible; picture murals
of natural settings are useful if outside vistas are inaccessible.
9. Including a "way-finding" process in every project. Patients, visitors, and staff must all
know where they are, where they are going, and how to get there and back.
10. Housekeeping rooms are adequate and strategically placed.
11. Detailing of elements such as doorframes, casework, and finish transitions to eliminate
dirt-attracting and difficult-to-clean fissures and joints.
12. Ensuring that gradients are level enough to allow simple travel and that walkways and
corridors are large enough to accommodate two wheelchairs.
13. Ensuring that entry areas are designed to accommodate patients with slower adaption
rates to dark and light; identifying glass walls and doors to make their presence obvious
14. Create an effective design that uses the built environment to help minimize fear, reduce
crime, and increase the overall quality of life and well-being for staff and patients.
15. Creating a harmonious integration of architecture, landscape, and interior design, as well
as components of electrical, mechanical, and structural engineering, by adhering to
Jong-Jin Kim's three principles of sustainable architectural design: resource economy,
life cycle design, and humane design.