Integration of EBD principles in a futureproof academic hospital from campus to bed

Design solutions bases on Evidence Based Design (EBD) principles vary due to the context and organizational aspects of hospitals. This paper explains how EBD principles were included during the design process of an academic hospital, including design guidelines that were developed with a representative group of key stakeholders from the...

Happily Ever After: Mental Health Promoting Senior Living environments

Late life depression is a common problem among seniors. It is estimated that up to 25% of people over 75 experience depression. The consequences are not limited to a having a worse mental state, but include a variety of physical comorbidities. Therefore countering late life depression will not only help the individual, but it will also reduce...

Uncovering the Visibility of Blue Spaces: Design-oriented Methods for Analysing Water Elements and Maximizing Their Potential

Existing studies indicate that a direct view of aquatic elements benefits well-being, and houses with blue views are often associated with higher prices. Therefore, developing analysis and design methods for visibility research of blue spaces are crucial to advance spatial design practice. Especially digital methods for analysing blue visibility...

Design quality: what we learned from evidence-based design and post-occupancy evaluation research during the COVID-19 pandemic

A Living Lab for Flow: An architectural meta exploration on the optimal mental state for well-being

This Master's thesis project is conceived in two parts. <br/><br/>The first part is the research project and is titled &lt;&lt;The Art of Acquiring Flow&gt;&gt; where the study assesses an architect’s ability to experience ‘design flow’, during the ideation phase, based on the type of design tool utilized. In order to test the hypothesis, I...

Home and Healthcare: The prospect of home adaptation through a computational design decision-support system

This paper presents ongoing research to define the framework of a computational design approach based on the ideas of spatial analysis and spatial synthesis to implement multi-criteria evaluations and provide evidence of the performance of the design alternatives in the specific case of home adaptation for healthcare at home. The European health...

To be or not to be - Housing for homeless terminal people: Addressing Dutch healthcare provision and homelessness by redefining shelter design

People share a deep-seated need for a 'sense of home'. It is an intangible, psychological and sociological need that is projected on, and connected to the Built Environment (Rennels &amp; Purnell, 2017; Dovey, 1985). Many people in western societies meet their 'sense of home' through traditional housing. Yet, there is a small marginalized group...

Design Models for Single Patient Rooms Tested for Patient Preferences

Using 3D design models, this study aims to better involve patients in the design of hospitals by investigating what physical environmental characteristics in hospital patient rooms are valued by patients. There is a plea for shared-decision-making and collaborative design processes with representatives from healthcare and the construction...

Healing Shelter: Gebruikersgericht herontwerp van de nachtopvang

Transformation of a homeless shelter in Rotterdam using Evidence Based Design (EBD) and a user-centered approach. The current building cannot cope with the extra influx of people and the architecture and program is not based on the needs of homeless people. The result is a radical spatial intervention a new program.

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...

Evidence-Based Design in Nederlandse ziekenhuizen: Ruimtelijke kwaliteiten die van invloed zijn op het welbevinden en de gezondheid van patiënten

Het identificeren van ruimtelijke kwaliteiten, waarvan wetenschappelijk bewezen is dat deze een positief effect hebben op de gezondheid en het welbevinden van patiënten en de staf, om daarmee architecten een handreiking te bieden voor het ontwerpen van betere ziekenhuizen. Deze maatregelen zijn ontleend aan onderzoek dat is verricht in het kader...

An oncological aftercare centre in the Plantage, Amsterdam

This project searches for an aftercare typology in an urban environment and finds it in the 'hofjes' typology which has been used for centuries. Also the architecture follows the ways of Evidence based design in order to use the architecture in the healing proces of the patient.

Intimacy and Nature: A healing environment for mother and child on basis of evidence-based architecture (Dutch: Intimiteit met Natuur: Een helende omgeving voor moeder en kind op basis van evidence-based architectuur)

This is my thesis research at the Architectural Engineering studio of the TU Delft faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment. The research paper proposes design directives by which an architect can foresee on the design for the new built and retrofit of a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for an academic hospital.

"Gezond ouder worden" in een stedelijke omgeving

Confronting evidence based research about healing environments in a geographical mapped model can give insights about potential effect of environmental stimuli at a certain location. For the analysis of dense areas it would be possible to rapidly find coherent effects that stablish "qualities of life".