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M.E. van Heel
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Towards User-Centered Architecture
Teaching Post-Occupancy Evaluation in Design Education in Delft and Vienna
In architectural education and practice, the evaluation of a building’s functional, psychosocial and social performance – its ability to meet user needs – is often neglected (Brown, 2018). Post-occupancy evaluation (POE), a systematic approach to assessing whether buildings fulfi
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Perspectives on Assessing the Flexibility of Hospitals for Crisis Mode Operations
Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Netherlands
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic placed healthcare design at the heart of the crisis. Hospitals faced challenges such as rapidly increasing their intensive care unit capacity, enabling physical distancing measures, quickly converting to telehealth and telework practices, and abo
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Trade-offs in Evidence Based Design
'The Patient Door Debate'
The door between the semi-public corridor and the single-occupancy patient room of a newly built University Medical Centre in the Netherlands has been heavily debated during its Evidence Based Design (EBD) and experience-informed design. It was also heavily debated since the ward
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Balancing bricks, bytes and behavior
Lessons learned from inpatient wards with 100% single occupancy rooms
The design of a new hospital is typically used as a catalyst for change, redesign, and the implementation of new work processes to improve health services. Perceived outcomes after relocation may be linked to the success of co-design and stakeholder engagement processes. Especial
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In hospitals, sinks act as reservoirs for bacterial pathogens. To assess the extent of splashing, fluorescein dye was added to four hospital sinks previously involved in pathogen dispersal to the environment and/or transmission to patients, and one sink that was not. Applying dye
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