Architects & Planners
Hospital Design Guide
Hospitals are the most complex of building types. Each hospital is comprised of a wide range of services and functional units. These include diagnostic and treatment functions, such as clinical laboratories, imaging, emergency rooms, and surgery; hospitality functions, such as food service and housekeeping; and the fundamental inpatient care or bed-related function. This diversity is reflected in the breadth and specificity of regulations, codes, and oversight that govern hospital construction and operations.
Healing Aspects of Architecture
God is in the details. The power of a healing environment comes from the little things such as the design details that empower patients to take responsibility of their own health. Imagine a centre for healing with an emphasis on wellness rather than illness, prevention rather than treatment, self care rather than service promotion.
Bringing hospitality into the hospital
The new home of the Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and new MSKCC Imaging Center, located a few blocks from the main MSKCC hospital campus, was envisioned as a world-class destination for ambulatory patients seeking the unique combination of a state-of-the-art diagnostic and treatment platform designed within a hospitality-like setting. Perkins Eastman provided programming, architecture and interior design for a 16-storey, 240,000-square-foot ambulatory care facility on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, based on new methods of cancer diagnosis and care. The plan stresses family involvement and integrated medical, surgical, and imaging services to allow multi-disciplinary consultations.
Architects Seek To Develop New Hospital Design Model
Hospital architects and designers nationwide have begun to develop a new model for a "healing environment," based on a "a growing body of evidence" that indicates the quality of patient rooms, corridors and public spaces "directly influences both the health outcomes of patients and the stress levels and efficiency of hospital staff," the Wall Street Journal reports. The trend comes amid a $200 billion "construction boom to replace or rebuild aging and outdated hospitals over the next decade," according to the Journal.
Architects & Planners Associations
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American College of Healthcare Architects
Architects certified by the American College of Healthcare Architects are dedicated to creating better facilities – so your patients receive better care.
- American Institute of Architects
- American Society of Architectural Illustrators
- American Society of Landscape Architects
- Architects Council of Europe
- Association of Licensed Architects
- International Union of Architects
