Hospital design today – even within the public sector – reflects a shift away from prioritising the staff's convenience to focusing on patients’ wellbeing. David Watts, managing director of CCD Design & Ergonomics, a human behaviour and design agency, points to evidence of this in the UK’s NHS, which aims is to drive up levels of customer satisfaction: “To achieve this, hospitals are looking to other sectors, such as hotels.” He cites the importance now placed on effective wayfinding in hospitals traditionally blighted by labyrinthine, featureless corridors that are disorientating for patients and visitors and make it longer than necessary for staff to get from A to B. Another way to reduce patients’ stress levels is to dovetail nature — traditionally seen as aiding the healing process — and architecture. True, there’s nothing new about this: Alvar Aalto’s Paimio Sanatorium for TB in Finland, completed in 1933, is in a forest and Aalto’s design included routes for walks through the tre… continue
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