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Lady Cilento Children's Hospital (2014), Brisbane Australia, by Lyons Architects with Conrad Gargett Architecture, features a bright color palette and striking materials. It has garnered numerous awards, including the F.D.G Stanley Award for Public Architecture, the Karl Langer Award for Urban Design, and a Salutogenic Design Award from the International Academy of Design and Health. Image courtesy: Lyons Architects. Photograph by Dianna Snape.
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Background: Increasingly, architectural and allied designers, engineers, and healthcare facility administrators are being challenged to demonstrate success in adroitly identifying and con-textualizing ever-shifting and expanding spheres of knowledge with respect to the role of energy conservation and carbon neutrality in healthcare treatment enviro...
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... ''Tectonic Innovation,'' the built project contributes to environmental design discourse with respect to the advancement of inventive spa- tial and technology-driven design strategies, and thereby garners peer recognition and wide influ- ence within the professional community. The Lady Cilento Children's Hospital in Brisbane, Australia ( Figure 5) by Lyons (2016) with Conrad Gargett architects is a visually striking building, with a vibrant, colorful facade and bold geometric forms. The architects aimed to set a benchmark in sensory design for pediatric healthcare; the build- ing was designed around the concept of ''a living tree.'' ...
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Purpose and Aim
This comprehensive review conceptually structures the recent medical intensive care literature to provide conceptual clarity and identify current priorities and future evidence-based research and design priorities.
Method and Result
Each source reviewed was classified as one of the five types—opinion pieces/essays, cross-sectional empirical investigations, nonrandomized comparative investigations, randomized studies, and policy review essays—and into nine content categories: nature engagement and outdoor views; family accommodations; intensive care unit (ICU), neonatal ICU, and pediatric ICU spatial configuration and amenity; noise considerations; artificial and natural lighting; patient safety and infection control; portable critical care field hospitals and disaster mitigation facilities including COVID-19; ecological sustainability; and recent planning and design trends and prognostications.
Conclusions
Among the findings embodied in the 135 literature sources reviewed, single-bed ICU rooms have increasingly become the norm; family engagement in the ICU experience has increased; acknowledgment of the therapeutic role of staff amenities; exposure to nature, view, and natural daylight has increased; the importance of ecological sustainability; and pandemic concerns have increased significantly in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Discussion of the results of this comprehensive review includes topics noticeably overlooked or underinvestigated in the 2005–2020 period and priorities for future research.
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Method and result:
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Purpose and Aim
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Method and Result
In response, two architectural design case studies are presented that synthesize ecological site planning precepts with salutogenic architectural design attributes—a behavioral health and substance abuse residential treatment center and three elderhousing prototypes for construction in Canada’s Northwest Territories.
Conclusion
This conceptual synthesis is practicable, transferable, and adaptable to varied, extreme climatic conditions, as reflective of best practices in the delivery of healthcare facilities that express a synthesis of ecohumanist and salutogenic values and methodologies. The discussion concludes with a call for empathic, evidence-based collaboration and research that further examines the blending together of prefabricated off-site construction with on-site construction approaches.
