| Title |
A Study on the Spatial Characteristics of the Outpatient Department in the Women’s Hospital : Focused on the Outpatient |
| Keywords |
여성전문병원 ; 외래진료부 ; 환자중심 ; 공간특성 |
| Abstract |
Recently, the Korean medical system changed with diversification & specialization and the field of medical service is also specialized in these days. And healing environment is proposed as a general concept in the hospital architecture. There is a trend that a establishment of women’s hospital is increasing as specialized type. In difference from general hospital, they are providing specialized and integrated services in response to the women’s disease and demand. Particularly, Outpatient department space in women’s hospital has been changed in terms of area, shape and program. However, there used to be not enough research efforts of responding these changes.
This study includes the Outpatient department of s women’s hospital in the form of small and medium sized building over a certain level in Korea. And the methods of the study adopted the theoric examination based concept and features of women’s hospital, the abstraction of distinctions in the Outpatient department through the analysis of the drawing, and the analysis of distinctions in the Outpatient department of women’s hospital with the structural space classified and the analysis of space relation. Therefore, the purpose of this is to study investigates and analyzes the spatial characteristics of the Outpatient department space in women’s hospital through a analysis of case study. To conclude, the space composition can be classified into the entry space, the clinic space for patients, the support space of patients’ check-up, the reception and waiting space, the rest and convenience space, and the link space in the Outpatient department of women’s hospital. The level space can account for the waiting space type, the clinic office type, the type based on the relation between the waiting room and the clinic office with its features. As a result, the results will be applied for the planning & design for the future women’s hospital. |