Your ambitions are admirable. As you continue, look into the current research on medical facilities and the affectation of patients due to the environment. There is a lot of good crossover research in architecture, environmental psychology and occupational therapy. First rule, RED is bad.
As for your precedent images, while I appreciate the effort of finding 10 medical facilities, there is no link between these precedents to one another and to your project specifically. You need to diagram and analyze the precedents in terms of your project goals to learn something about what you intend to design
Hi Harold - when looking at these buildings, its important to understand the user experience of each building, i.e how the architecture, lighting, ambience, interior design will help people recuperate, etc... A lot of the buildings you've chosen to analyse won't help you understand this as much as some smaller ones, so its probably worth looking at the design of various Maggie Centres - there are a good range of them here: http://www.dezeen.com/tag/maggies-centres/, with more details of Rem Koolhaas designed one in Glasgow ( http://ribastirlingprize.architecture.com/stirling-shortlist-2012-maggies-centre-glasgow/ ) and Zaha Hadid'd one in Fife gives a good description of its concept ( http://www.zaha-hadid.com/architecture/maggies-centre-fife/ ). I know these are all cancer-orientated and yours might not necessarily be aimed at that, but the architecture and conceptual analysis behind all the Maggie Centres is that good architecture can help people cope with their conditions (or give them a good quality of life at least).
Your ambitions are admirable. As you continue, look into the current research on medical facilities and the affectation of patients due to the environment. There is a lot of good crossover research in architecture, environmental psychology and occupational therapy. First rule, RED is bad.
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Hi Harold - when looking at these buildings, its important to understand the user experience of each building, i.e how the architecture, lighting, ambience, interior design will help people recuperate, etc... A lot of the buildings you've chosen to analyse won't help you understand this as much as some smaller ones, so its probably worth looking at the design of various Maggie Centres - there are a good range of them here: http://www.dezeen.com/tag/maggies-centres/, with more details of Rem Koolhaas designed one in Glasgow ( http://ribastirlingprize.architecture.com/stirling-shortlist-2012-maggies-centre-glasgow/ ) and Zaha Hadid'd one in Fife gives a good description of its concept ( http://www.zaha-hadid.com/architecture/maggies-centre-fife/ ). I know these are all cancer-orientated and yours might not necessarily be aimed at that, but the architecture and conceptual analysis behind all the Maggie Centres is that good architecture can help people cope with their conditions (or give them a good quality of life at least).
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