The benefits that people can obtain through plants or contact with nature have been debated for thousands of years. Historical records indicate that this principle was taken up in ancient hospitals, where the main objective was to make patients comfortable.
With the purpose of eliminating the risks of pathogens, caused by the infrastructure of the environment, remodeling of the structures has been made, leaving aside the outdoor areas for the use of patients.
However, hospitals have been found to be stressful environments, in part because their structure is complex and unfamiliar.
It has been emphasized that both children, as well as patients in general and visitors, need settings for recreation, imagination and physical play.
A functional plan consists of designing a plan of activities within the hospital in which the characteristics that must configure and specify the needs and demands anticipated by possible users are identified, with which it seeks to guarantee adequate levels of service and quality.
Minimum- like in a hospital, maximum- like at home
The image of the hospital as such is more negative than positive. After all, what associations do we have with this place? It’s something cold, sterile, with eerie neon lighting.
Earlier, the main thing was hygiene, and, say, the view from the window received much less attention. Today the situation is changing.
This, of course, does not mean that hospitals have become dirtier. But they are increasingly becoming similar in style and approach to the design of premises to hotels.
The room where the patient is located should not shout with all its appearance: “I’m sick! I feel bad! I’m in the hospital! “It is much better if the ward reminds of home, it will be cozy. The same can be said about the hospital building as a whole.
Modern hospital designers & planners pay a lot of attention to lighting hospital premises, and in this case we are talking not only about operating rooms, where everything is prescribed in advance, but about wards and corridors.
Daylight costs nothing, so it should be used as much as possible, in addition, the physical characteristics of the body must be taken into account: the patient must not be allowed to fall asleep when the fluorescent light is on.
Night lighting should be different from daylight. Today, there is also a lot of attention to materials: parquet floor, for example, looks much more comfortable than others.
According to hospital planners in India, the functionality of a medical institution should not suffer in any way, the only thing that can lose to some extent is architecture as an art form: after all, we cannot design a building that interferes with the work of doctors.
A modern hospital is a real city living its own life, there are treatment rooms, and wards where patients sometimes spend several weeks, a restaurant, a cafe, a delivery service, and a laboratory.
So that these “blocks” cooperate, but do not interfere with each other. At the same time, the clinic should still be beautiful.
The hospital today should be inscribed in the urban environment: it becomes not a place where sick people are, but a health center.