Healthcare architecture as infrastructure : open building in practice / edited by Stephen H. Kendall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kendall, Stephen H., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hospital architecture.

Health facilities--Design and construction.

Health facilities.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"Architects and healthcare clients are increasingly coming to recognize that, once built, healthcare facilities are almost immediately subject to physical alterations which both respond to and affect healthcare practices. This calls into question the traditional ways in which these facilities are designed. If functions and practices are subject to alteration, the standard approach of defining required functions and practices before acquiring facilities is obsolete. We need other starting points, working methods, and ways of collaborating. Healthcare Architecture as Infrastructure presents these new approaches. Advocating an infrastructure theory of built environment transformation in which design and investment decisions are organized hierarchically and transcend short-term use, the book draws the practice and research of a number of architects from around the world. Written by experts with experience in policy making, designing, building, and managing complex healthcare environments, it shows professionals in architecture, engineering, healthcare and facilities management how to enhance the long-term usefulness of their campuses and their building stock and how to strengthen their physical assets with the capacity to accommodate a quickly evolving healthcare sector"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1.An infrastructure model of the building stock / Stephen H. Kendall

2.System Separation: A strategy for preventive building design / Giorgio Macchi

3.A dynamic steering instrument for the development of the Inselspital University healthcare campus / Martin Henn

4.Dynamic facilities development: A client perspective on managing change / Malaina Bowker

5.Planning for change: Banner Estrella Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona / Anne Friedrich Bilsbarrow

6.The evolution of a hospital planned for change / Nirit Putievsky Pilosof

7.Finding shared ambitions to design for change: Building the AZ Groeninge hospital / Pieter Herthogs

8.Transformation of an existing hospital building to a hospice: Open Building as strategy for process and product / Karel Dekker

9.Simulation: Tools for planning for change / William Fawcett

10.The growth and change of hospital buildings / Kazuhiko Okamoto.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 06, 2020)

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781351256407

9781351256384

9781351256391

9781351256377

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.