Carefully designed spaces within a healthcare facility can affect a patient’s recovery rate, reduce the length of stay, and even affect the sleeping experience of the patients.It has been proven through research that a broad view reduces stress and pain.
A correct combination of care environment, equipment, and skills are required to create efficient care facilities and achieve a virtuous work environment. It is therefore essential to design a hospital with hospital space planners as they will help in providing the necessary spaces in the hospital from the earliest stages of planning a new structure.
Designing a health facility is equivalent to planning for the future; this has an impact on the efficiency and quality of care and on the caregiver’s working environment.
The hospital must always maintain the human dimension in design and operation, and it must meet the human’s psychological and emotional needs in addition to its organic needs, whether this person is the sick person, the doctor who treats him, or the nurse.
It has emerged from many researches that the humanity of the building has become a therapeutic necessity. Therefore, it is necessary to give its patients, and working cadres, a sense of safety and reassurance.
The internal and external spaces, with their capacities, shapes, overlapping, and fluidity, can create the appropriate atmosphere to achieve these necessary psychological needs, especially after modern hospitals have become highly specialized.
It is also necessary to take into account the use of natural lighting as much as possible, and the opening of the internal space to the outside in the waiting areas to a small garden or an external terrace overlooking a charming landscape so that hospital buildings do not become mere silent, barren cubes of concrete and glass.
Attention should also be paid to the architectural expression of the internal spaces and the external shape and its relationship to the human scale and health ratios, and if the land area allows the hospital to be designed horizontally in several low-rise buildings up to three or four floors, this is better than the work of a high-rise hospital.
Corridors
Corridors are considered one of the very important elements that we must pay attention to in various types of buildings in general and in hospitals in particular, as they represent the horizontal link and means of moving from one place to another and from one section to another on the same floor.
The study of traffic quantitatively and qualitatively in line with the actual need is considered one of the first foundations in the planning and design of hospitals, as a large number of traffic in the corridors leads to noise and inconvenience to patients and the loss of a lot of time and effort.
When doing space planning for a hospital, special attention should be paid to the fact that the corridors are well ventilated, do not have unacceptable odors, and have good lighting, whether natural or artificial.
The width of the corridors must be appropriate so that it is not less than 210 cm and its length is not more than 30 meters, and if necessary, it can be longer from that. As you can understand, it is indispensable to have space planning professionals involved when designing and hospital. Therefore, we recommend you choose the hospital space planners of Astron Healthcare as the professional team of this firm has extensive experience in this field along with the required skills.