We held workshops with key stakeholders to evaluate different layout, facility, and manufacturing options.
Healthy architecture and design for wellbeing in healthcare buildings.Bryden Wood designed Circle Reading Hospital and Circle Birmingham Hospital, and collaborates closely with NHS England.
Our primary focus in healthcare projects is to adopt the principles of healthy architecture in order to improve the quality of the user experience for patients and staff.Hospitals are places to heal and recover, and the design of the building is paramount in supporting this.. As part of our recent involvement in healthcare design, we analysed the performance of typical ward layouts in terms of daylight quality and opportunities for views out:.• Inboard design: rooms facing the corridor with toilets in the facade.
• Outboard design: rooms facing outdoors with toilets adjacent to the corridor.• Nested design: rooms facing outdoors and connected to corridor.
Toilets nested..
The first option represents a trend in hospital design in which patient rooms are open and easily accessible from corridors, in order to improve staff-patient visibility and increase operational efficiency.Sometimes it felt pretty lonely out there.
But you know, it's not lonely anymore.That's so good.”.
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