Spatial decision support systems for hospital layout design: A review

This study presents a systematic review of the literature on decision support for designing hospital layouts using spatial network analysis and/or simulation modelling. The review includes 102 articles, which are classified into five different categories concerning their layout-related challenges. Specifically, the categories include...

Making post-war urban neighbourhoods healthier: involving residents’ perspectives in selecting locations for health promoting urban redesign interventions

Post-war urban neighbourhoods in industrialised countries have been shown to negatively affect the lifestyles of their residents due to their design. This study aims at developing an empirical procedure to select locations to be redesigned and the determinants of health at stake in these locations, with involvement of residents’ perspectives...

How the Built Environment Promotes Residents’ Physical Activity: The Importance of a Holistic People-Centered Perspective

Promoting adequate physical activity (PA) such as walking and cycling is essential to cope with the global health challenge of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Much research has been conducted to analyze how the built environment can promote PA, but the results are not consistent. Some scholars found that certain built environments such as...

“The Hoist of the Yellow Flag”: Vulnerable Port Cities and Public Health

Port cities have long played a key role in the development, discovery, and fight against diseases. They have been laboratories for policies to address public health issues. Diseases reached port cities through maritime exchanges, and the bubonic plague is a key example. Port city residents’ close contact with water further increased the chance...

Goodbye history

Het gebouw als bewijs: Het bouwhistorische verhaal achter erfgoed

Bespreking van het boek 'Het gebouw als bewijs: Het bouwhistorische verhaal achter erfgoed' onder redactie van Ronald Stenvert en Gabri van Tussenbroek.

Urbanism, Housing, and the City

Evaluating the Psychosocial Impact of Indoor Public Spaces in Complex Healthcare Settings

Objective: This article describes an approach to a metrics-based evaluation of public space in hospitals using cross-disciplinary qualitative and quantitative analyses. The method, Indoor Public Space Measurement (IPSM), is well suited to researchers and designers who intend to evaluate user-centered spatial solutions in hospitals and similar...

The Delft Fundamentals: integration of disciplines, projects and analysis

As part of the renewal in 2013/2014 of the bachelor education curriculum in the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, a new study programme was prepared on the Fundamentals (in Dutch: Grondslagen) of spatial design. The teaching approach, visually presented by some examples and explained in this...

Evidence Based Design

Dit artikel gaat in op een fenomeen dat bekend is geworden onder de naam Evidence Based Design. Essentie van dit concept is de bewering dat ingrepen in de omgeving – te denken is aan architectuur en het interieurontwerp – effecten hebben op de mensen die zich daarin ophouden. Architectonische oplossingen zouden in ziekenhuizen tot meetbare...

Het Rijksmuseum en de stad: Honderd jaar plannen maken voor het Museumplein

Gebouwd aan de rand van de zeventiende-eeuwse grachtengordel vormde het Rijksmuseum vanaf het begin de overgang tussen de historische stad en de uitbrei- dingen vanaf de late negentiende eeuw.

The Rijksmuseum and the city: A hundred years of planning for Museumplein

Built on the edge of Amsterdam’s seventeenth-century canal ring, the Rijksmuseum has always formed the transition between the historical centre and the urban extensions that began in the late nineteenth century. For obvious reasons, the museum was designed to face the existing city, but the municipal authorities ordered the construction of a...

OK-afdeling: hart van het ziekenhuis: Medewerkers binden door een beter gebouw

In Nederland vinden regelmatig symposia plaats over de operatiekamer van de toekomst. De ideale operatie afdeling is zowel functioneel als prettig in het gebruik, flexibel en voorzien van de modernste apparatuur. De gebruiker moet er optimaal kunnen werken. Het komt echter nog vaak voor dat de eindgebruiker onvoldoende betrokken wordt in het...

The Odd One Out? Revisiting the Belgian Welfare State

Performance based design and management of healthcare facilities

Subject/Research problem<br/>Healthcare is in need of methods and sound research data to provide a better fit between supply and demand with regard to functionality, serviceability, architectural and perceptual qualities, technical aspects, economical issues and sustainability. This paper presents a research programme in progress of the Faculty...