Healthcare
We’re world leaders in healthcare architecture design, because we not only understand that health facilities have to be supremely efficient, but that there’s a lot that can be done to improve the recovery rates and other outcomes above and beyond the mainstays of good healthcare design – functional planning and views of nature.
We take evidence-based design very seriously. Nobody has better access and is better informed about the constant flow of evidence than we are, and very few architects are able (or even qualified) to turn high-level science into practical approaches that aren’t lost in translation to bricks and mortar.
Most of the evidence about health facility design challenges orthodoxy in one way or another, but almost everything points to the powerful benefits of patient-centred models of care. These can’t be applied like paint – and work best when they’re designed into the very fabric of the building.
As knowledge leaders in this field, we lecture on the subject and work closely with many larger architectural firms wherever they are in the world (normally such collaborations are needed to put together a hospital).
There are hundreds of simple design tricks to improve private practices – to improve patient flows, interpersonal dynamics, recovery rates and the comfort and peace of mind of everyone at the clinic. A feature article in ‘Medical Republic’ outlines how we approach some of these, but there are many more.
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Some of our research on Healthcare Architecture Design
- Antonio Bradley (2016) Beginning to see the light, Medical Republic, 5:2 (10 Feb), p.20-23
- Golembiewski, Jan. (2017). The bad buildings scream – lessons from don dale and other failed institutions. The Conversation 2014(1), 81990.
- Golembiewski, Jan. (2015). Salutogenic architecture in health care settings. In G. Bauer & M. Mittelmark (Eds.), Handbook of salutogenics: Past, present and future (pp. 267-276). New York: Nature.
- Golembiewski, Jan. (2012). Salutogenic design: The neural basis for health-promoting environments. World Health Design Scientific Review, 5(4), 62-68.
