| Title |
A Study on the Changing Process of Healthcare Facilities Design |
| Keywords |
Healthcare Facility Design ; Network Architecture |
| Abstract |
The hospital began as a public institution serving the poor in the middle age. Through the introduction of modern science and technology, hospital has been the institutional core of a nation's health care system in the 20th century. In the late of 20th century, with the application of commercial design, it has become a more welcoming and accessible place for the patient and visitors in the competitive healthcare market. According to these social and health environments in each times, hospital planning and design concepts have gone through the following changing-process; Observability vs. The Asylum, Function vs. Compact Design, Growth and Change vs. Block Design, Cost-Effectiveness vs. Commercial Design.
Today, healthcare is also continuously changing. Thinking about the future healthcare facilities design in an IT society which emphasizes the broader, interactive scope, with global markets and global communications, the healthcare network is considered as the future healthcare facility. While the 20th century hospital was dependent on the functional condition by it's complexity, healthcare facilities design in a network will relatively set free from functional requirements and will be more simpler and more distinctive. Therefore, the health network will become a paradigm of network architecture in future IT society. |