DESIGN SOLUTIONS:

1. Integrating a logistics system, which includes elevators, manual or automated carts, and
gravity chutes, is crucial for efficient food handling, clean supplies, waste disposal, and
space utilization.
2. Support spaces for nearby functional units to share and multi-purpose spaces are
introduced for effective operations.
3. Based on a thorough functional program that outlines the hospital's anticipated activities,
grouping or combining functional areas with comparable system needs is also integrated
for an essential use of optimal adjacencies.
4. Including an open-ended design with well-planned potential expansion directions, such
as placing "soft spaces" like administrative departments near "hard spaces" like clinical
laboratories.
5. Using familiar and culturally relevant materials wherever consistent with sanitation and
other functional needs
6. Using bright and diverse colors and textures, while considering that some hues are
unsuitable and might interfere with provider evaluations of patients' pallor and skin tones,
disorient older or disabled patients, or upset patients and staff, particularly some mental
patients.
7. Allowing as much natural light as possible and employing color-corrected lighting in
indoor locations that closely resemble natural daylight
8. Providing views of nature from every patient bed and wherever possible; picture murals
of natural settings are useful if outside vistas are inaccessible.
9. Including a "way-finding" process in every project. Patients, visitors, and staff must all
know where they are, where they are going, and how to get there and back.
10. Housekeeping rooms are adequate and strategically placed.
11. Detailing of elements such as doorframes, casework, and finish transitions to eliminate
dirt-attracting and difficult-to-clean fissures and joints.
12. Ensuring that gradients are level enough to allow simple travel and that walkways and
corridors are large enough to accommodate two wheelchairs.
13. Ensuring that entry areas are designed to accommodate patients with slower adaption
rates to dark and light; identifying glass walls and doors to make their presence obvious
14. Create an effective design that uses the built environment to help minimize fear, reduce
crime, and increase the overall quality of life and well-being for staff and patients.
15. Creating a harmonious integration of architecture, landscape, and interior design, as well
as components of electrical, mechanical, and structural engineering, by adhering to
Jong-Jin Kim's three principles of sustainable architectural design: resource economy,
life cycle design, and humane design.