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Title The covert life of hospital architecture / edited by Julie Zook and Kerstin Sailer.

Publication Info. London : UCL Press, 2022.

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (colour).
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computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Print version record.
Contents The spatial dimension of hospital life -- The patient and the reciprocal view -- Reflective essay: The evolution of surveillance in hospital design -- Working together in healthcare space -- Reflective Essay: Spatial intelligence to support a team-of-teams ecosystem - relevance and need in practice -- The visitor and hospital corridor design -- Reflective essay: Designing a human-centred Hospital Wayfinding System -- The social logic of spaces for health: The relational hospital as a response to COVID-19.
Summary The Covert Life of Hospital Architecture addresses hospital architecture as a set of interlocked, overlapping spatial and social conditions. It identifies ways that planned-for and latent functions of hospital spaces work jointly to produce desired outcomes such as greater patient safety, increased scope for care provider communication and more intelligible corridors. By advancing space syntax theory and methods, the volume brings together emerging research on hospital environments. Opening with a description of hospital architecture that emphasizes everyday relations, the sequence of chapters takes an unusually comprehensive view that pairs spaces and occupants in hospitals: the patient room and its intervisibility with adjacent spaces, care teams and on-ward support for their work and the intelligibility of public circulation spaces for visitors. The final chapter moves outside the hospital to describe the current healthcare crisis of the global pandemic as it reveals how healthcare institutions must evolve to be adaptable in entirely new ways. Reflective essays by practicing designers follow each chapter, bringing perspectives from professional practice into the discussion. The Covert Life of Hospital Architecture makes the case that latent dimensions of space as experienced have a surprisingly strong link to measurable outcomes, providing new insights into how to better design hospitals through principles that have been tested empirically. It will become a reference for healthcare planners, designers, architects and administrators, as well as for readers from sociology, psychology and other areas of the social sciences.
Subject Hospital architecture.
Hospital buildings -- Design and construction.
Hospitals -- Sociological aspects.
Hospital Design and Construction
Architecture hospitalière.
Hôpitaux (Édifices) -- Conception et construction.
Hôpitaux -- Aspect sociologique.
hospitals (buildings for health facility)
ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial
Hospital architecture
Hospital buildings -- Design and construction
Hospitals -- Sociological aspects
Added Author Zook, Julie, editor.
Sailer, Kerstin, 1976- editor.
Other Form: Print version: COVERT LIFE OF HOSPITAL ARCHITECTURE. [Place of publication not identified] : UCL PRESS, 2022 1800080905 (OCoLC)1275355587
ISBN 9781800080881 (electronic bk.)
1800080883 (electronic bk.)
1800080905
9781800080904
1800080891
9781800080898
Standard No. AU@ 000071348644

 
    
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