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Archies Treatment Centre, Belfast
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Caferia Mater Hospital, Belfast
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Operating Theatre with Views, Brighton
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St Oswald's Hospice, Newcastle
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St Oswald's Hospice, Newcastle
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Maggie Centre, London
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Great Ormond Street Hospital, London
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Arriving inside a building - pictogram from the IDEAs Gallery
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Single Bedroom with views, art + technology - pictogram from the IDEAs Gallery
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Social Meeting Dayroom - pictogram from the IDEAs Gallery
Healing Architecture refers to both the capacity and use of architecture to promote healing in the people it accommodates and to the need to restore architecture to a more human and appropriate role than it has often played. Healing Architecture calls for the development of a design process that is based on the use of research evidence and best practice alongside the development of original and innovative forms and design solutions in response to the need for practitioners to have a rigorous evidence-base to support decision-making. The evidence-based approach is urging design practitioners to adopt the rigours of science.
| Recent and Current Projects |
EPSRC-funded Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre (HaCIRIC) project “Nurturing an Evidence-Based Learning Environment which supports the Innovative Design of Healthcare Facilities or similar (Acronym EBLE)” - a Sheffield and Loughborough Universities collaboration with industrial partners including Department of Health Estates & Facilities, Welsh NHS Estates, Health Facilities Scotland, Northern Ireland Healthcare Estates and others (2009 - ongoing). Development in 2011 of Sheffield Database of Architectural Healthcare Environments and Staff & Patient Health Outcomes (HEAR). Balfour Beatty Capital Projects Post Occupancy Evaluations (POE) 2011 Macmillan Cancer Support Post-Project Evaluations 2005-2009 Chang, C-L. (2009) Spatial Design and Reassurance for Unfamiliar Users When Wayfinding in Buildings, PhD Thesis, School of Architecture, The University of Sheffield. BArch Students’ Special Studies: Hunt, SJ-A (2009) Body, Memory and Architecture: Towards Improved Wellbeing Through Design, Special Study, School of Architecture Mitchell, F (2008) Public Toilets in Sheffield: Looking for Relief, Special Study, School of Architecture |
| Key Outcomes |
A Staff and Patient Environment Calibration Tool (ASPECT) Achieving Design Excellence Evaluation Toolkit (AEDET Evolution) |
| Activities and Events |
Presentation on “Flexibility in Healthcare Infrastructure at a Time of Austerity: Do Standards and Tools reflect the Reality of Designing for Dementia, the Elderly, Children and Refurbishment or Reconfiguration?” at the HaCIRIC Conference 26th -29th September 2011, Salford. Workshop on St Olav’s Hospital Development, Norway on 12th -13th September 2011. Presentation on “Agile Evidence Based Built Environments: Assuring Quality in a Time of Significant Structural Change and Financial Pressure” at the Design4Health Conference, Sheffield-Hallam University 13th -15th July 2011. Workshop in Vienna on North Vienna Hospital Development, 29th June 2011. Workshop with Nightingale Associates on “Refurbishment of NHS Healthcare buildings to increase the proportion of single rooms within the Trust estate, and related issues of Isolation bedroom requirements”, The Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX, 26th May 2011. Workshop with WSP Group and Llewellyn Davis Yeang Architects on “Setting Standards in NHS Healthcare Buildings for Children’s Facilities: Great Ormond Street Hospital Redevelopment Case Study”, Room 105D, Skipton House, The Department of Health, London (80 London Rd., London, SE1 6LH), 19th May 2011. Presentation on “Effectiveness in Combination with a Healing Environment” Nohr-Con’s Conference on Future Hospitals Copenhagen, Denmark 10-12th May 2011. |