HISTORY OF HOSPITAL PLANNING The hospital as an institution offering care to those who need it is of great antiquity. The modern word is derived from the Latin hospes (“host”), which is also the root for the words ‘hotel’, ‘hospice’, and ‘hospitality’. The earliest examples approximating the institutions we call hospitals, however, were the Egyptian […]
The Modern Hospital: Western Trends in Healthcare Facility Design from the 1980’s Onwards Reinventing the Hospital […]
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot… It’s the refrain from a song titled “Big Yellow Taxi recently popularized by Countin’ Crows. They go on to sing: ‘Took all the trees, put them in a tree museum Charged all the people a dollar and a half to see them… Now don’t it […]
Flexible Design Principles in Healthcare Facility Planning vis-a-vis Adaptive Alternative Usage • Healthcare facilities as designed and built in India today would be resistant to change of use • However, “flexibility” as a design objective in contemporary healthcare facility design worldwide is of paramount importance • This flexibility refers only to flexibility of change of […]
The Architecture of Imaging: The Design of the Radiology & Imaging Sciences Department Introduction to Design Considerations Medicine is a science, but the practice of medicine is an art. This is especially true in the branch of medicine called medical imaging. The art of applying medical imaging requires high-technology equipment, tremendous care and patience, and […]
The Business Case For BIM in Healthcare Facility Design And Construction Hospitals can be said to be the most complex of common building types. Each hospital is comprised of a wide range of services and functional units. These include diagnostic and treatment functions, hospitality functions and the fundamental inpatient unit. Each of the wide-ranging and constantly evolving functions […]
Designing Healthcare Environments for Handicapped Children Architects in India are generally not very interested in barrier-free design and accessibility. The majority of them would not have even heard these terms used in this context. They are unaware what good can happen through appropriate design because they don’t really understand the impact of bad design. […]
Commercialization of Medicine-An email from my cousin Dear Hoosu, Thank you for your emails about your work and the commercialization of medicine, the book ‘A First Rate Madness’ and your picture with friend Jayesh. I hope everyone is as well as possible. It seems that in India […]
The Business Case for Green Healthcare Facility Design “If you wish to sustain your body in good health, […]
Grid-Shrinking as a means of Cutting Costs in Healthcare Facility Design: A Conversation Hussain Varawalla Healthcare Architect Syed Basharath Ali-CEO-Tameer Consulting Associates Sameer Mehta Director-Projects-Hosmac India Following are the proceedings of an email debate on whether shrinking the column grid in a proposed healthcare facility project would be an effective way of cutting costs. […]
