CREATING A COMPLETE HOSPITAL
CREATING A COMPLETE HOSPITAL
We have set out a five-step process of questions that a leader charged with delivering a hospital can pose in order to ‘set the brief.’ These are intended to be supremely practical and to lead to specific answers which can be recorded. Key questions are:
Process and key questions for setting the brief for a Complete Hospital
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• How can we maintain permeability • Which spaces do & don’t require through the site for users and natural light and/or ventilation? visitors and at different grades? How will staff and visitors travel to • How many single rooms will we the hospital? • How can we relate the building need? to existing site and its imitate What opportunities are there • What different privacy levels are surroundings? for re-greened active and needed and how do we ensure they public transport? Can we create • How can the hospital brief be are achieved? greenways, trams with trees? Can subdivided to relate to surrounding • Where can we create alternative we plant trees? building scale and urban grain? external circulations routes? How can the required carparking be • How will it use and create public • How much external space would economically and sympathetically space? benefit the hospital and where incorporated? • How will hospital both stand out would it be best located in relation How much interaction will/ and fit in? to other facilities? should there be with the local • How will hospital express • How do we create a variety of neighborhood and community? community identity and pride? outdoor green spaces with differing Does it have any overriding unique privacy levels? • How will hospitals feel familiar and requirements such as access healing? • How we connect upper floors with to countryside or proximity to gardens? specialist facilities? • Where should prominent continuous stairs be placed?
• What is the right hierarchy of • How do we ensure ongoing focus construction for different elements on building maintenance for long of the facility? term sustainability? • How do we avoid short term technological obsolescence?
• How do we ensure ongoing opportunities for patients to garden?
• How can we use public funds efficiently?
• How do we support surrounding community?
• How do we create buildings that people want to keep? • What materials with low embodied carbon would be suitable for your hospital? • What materials will have longevity appropriate to the different levels of hierarchy? • How can we use materials and architecture to ensure minimized requirements for long term maintenance?
• How do we avoid noise and light pollution?
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