07-07-2023, 10:44 PM
(07-07-2023, 09:56 PM)ac3r Wrote: I filled it out. Tried to highlight the importance of transit and the need to consider the urban plan of the region in regards to increased population density to serve the most people going forward. I also emphasized the very neglected aspects of institutional architectural design, where creating an interior that is functional and logical to both staff as well as patients, but which also has a nice environment as it is proven that it has positive impacts on patients with neurodegenerative diseases, psychiatric diseases, oncology patients, children and adolescents and so on. The current hospital is so weirdly outdated but not. You can be on one floor and some wings haven't been renovated beyond a new paint job since 1950 yet you turn the other way and it was clearly redesigned in 2000 or something. It's an uncomfortable in some areas. I've been in the ACE (Advanced Care for the Elderly or something) which are elderly people who are dementia or other debilitating disorders and damn it is such depressing wing. These are people who don't know what is going on and they're kept in a highly secured hallway that hasn't been touched since the 50s.
Anyway...maybe we'd get something like these two? Probably not but I can dream:
(Pictured is Khoo Teck Puat Hospital by RMJM in Singapore and Shenzhen Children's Hospital Science & Education Building in Shenzhen, China although this hospital is unironically more my style...and that sort of very minimalistic and contemporary look is shown to have a positive impact on patients, even though at first glance you may think it is super sterile and institutional looking heh.)
I hope you're right, but most days it seems like beauty is for other people.
local cambridge weirdo