HEALTHCARE DESIGN
Design Guidance Statement Movement • Inspire and motivate patients through their treatment • Create a flow through the space • Simplicity in wayfinding • Add interest to space Order
Location, Client, Purpose, Goals • Located in Hialeah Gardens, FL • Clients age range from 18+ • Community around the area are families and elderly • Design a Rehabilitation Facility • Create a community environment • Encourage the progression of the therapy • Inspire Patients • Design motivating space
• Define landmarks • Create balance • Designing with balance ensures a comfortable space for patients and staff to occupy User:User • Axial Design • Design a space where the users feel comfortable and relaxed • Create Proportion • Clean Environment • Does not feel like a medical facility Composed • Ease of communication between the staff and patients • Creating a claming space for patients to receive treatment and recover. • Patients feel secure • Materiality that is cohesive and respond to the calming atmosphere • Psychological factors addressed for patients and staff members • Motivate and promote effort • Create unity and a sense of privacy User:Interior Architecture • Make user aware of their surroundings • Relationship between the user and the style of the interior • Create rhythm and pattern throughout the space to stimulate human architecture interest • Design a pleasant relaxing environment • Stress free environment Community • Proportional system accurate • Enhance the staff and patient relationship • Proper entrance for Staff and maintenance • Create a comforting environment for the patients and staff to share • Design a space the inspires movement • Visual relationship between the nurse and patients • Design the interior with response to the exterior architecture • Design areas where patients can communicate and engage with other patients Interior Architecture:Context • Layout of the interior addresses human senses Stimulation • Create a space where the patients feel secure and have privacy • Promote movement from patient • Design with balance and insure comfortable spaces for patents • Respond to human senses to occupy and enjoy • Design a pleasant space for patients and staff to relax •Design areas where patients can meet for recreational or socialization situations and enjoy then in a stimulating environment. • Axial Design • Visual relationship from nurses station to patients
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