Parametric design of healthcare – how to design buildings for medical needs

 

Today, predictive analytics tools powered by artificial intelligence can improve hospital operations by optimising capacity requirements, alerting care teams to patients at risk of adverse events and predicting gaps in care, among other things.
But in addition, by examining the operation of a hospital and the movement of the healthcare workers (doctors, nurses etc), it is possible to identify parameters that can influence the design principles of healthcare institutions in the long term. Here are some examples of how:
Nurses’ routs research
There are centralised, decentralised approaches to examine the circumstance and the daily routine of the healthcare workers.
Research bjective: nurses to make the shortest possible journey to patients
There are two ways:
– what are the current transport routes in an existing hospital, evaluating them to determine how many rooms are assigned to a nurse
– in a fictitious room: how to place the nurse’s room in the ideal position.Graph theory is used to determine where a nurse’s assigned room would be in a good location. Moorings, parameters: rooms should not overlap, minimum distances between rooms and nurse rooms. Floor plan generation.
With this approach, it is possible to give nurses more time to spend with patients, shorter distances to travel, less carrying. Research shows that this approach can save about 20%.

Picture from research: AGENT-DRIVEN ACCESSIBILITY AND VISIBILITY ANALYSIS IN
NURSING UNITS (LEE)

Visibility test
– glass waiting area: as large an area as possible should be directly visible to the professional
– increase visibility from the nurse’s room to as many rooms as possible

Building evacuation test
– simulation of evacuation from the building in case of fire or other incidents (for patients with walker or wheelchair)
– evacuation can also help guide hospital renovation, where appropriate, as to what other combustion retardant, fire spread control materials might benefit from being installed.

The parametric way can grasp every part of the whole design, and it’s more trackable along the process. It can be applied to a wide range of hospitals, both for renovation and new construction. 

 

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2021/11.17