Healthcare in Transition
Architectures and processes at the convergence of healthcare and technology
Ian Omumbwa (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
T. Kuzniecow Bacchin – Mentor (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
K. Dabiri – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
J.P.G. Holst – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
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Abstract
Through researching information flows and their territorial footprint around the North Sea, we observed that the global production of data and its subsequent surveillance is growing. The data emerging out of the health sector (Health data) is today leveraged to speculate on its potential futures and processes. Namely, its physical, technical and social requirements can be forecasted in order to mitigate its territorialisation as redundancies and opportunities can be observed. However, future trends in healthcare are always fluctuating, calling for flexibility within projected future scenarios to cater to changes in population health and technology development.
In a parallel line of inquiry, in the context of the North Sea, a probe is set on the relationship between healthcare and the sea. With the coast becoming a therapeutic landscape, the project’s objectives outline the equalisation of digital and natural infrastructure as means of treatment. In marrying the latter to future medical trends such as automation, the proposal results in an acute, modular and semi-automated treatment facility (medical village) nestled within a coastal territory for healing. With the evolved understanding of healthcare, the research re-asserts that the notion of cure and care has expanded into the idea of well-being and continuous care. Therefore, like a feedback loop, the reconfiguration of the architectural typologies needed in healthcare inherently redesign our approach to it.