Purpose:This paper reviews an area of interdisciplinary collaboration in the design of healthcare facilities that attempts to optimize hospital space-planning using automated statistical techniques from the discipline...Purpose:This paper reviews an area of interdisciplinary collaboration in the design of healthcare facilities that attempts to optimize hospital space-planning using automated statistical techniques from the discipline of Operations Research(OR).This review articulates Facility Layout Problems(FLPs)as a general class of OR problems.Furthermore,the review highlights limitations of these techniques,which necessitate an ethical and participatory engagement with computerized processes of healthcare architecture.Design/methodology/approach:An in-depth critical review was carried out,which revealed a number of common themes,collectively theorized as metamodeling processes,or models of models,through which various FLP modelling techniques can be challenged and debated in terms of their architectural viability,and ethical ramifications.Findinss:This review provides a methodological basis for the further evaluation of computational models.It was found that most of the reviewed studies are functionally focused on flow efficiency and,in general,do not consider broader contextual,relational,social,or salutogenic design values.Orisinality/value:This review is the first on the subject written from an architectural perspective.It can be used by a broad range of readers as its critical review of past and present hospital layout modelling techniques discusses their capabilities and limitations.As such,it also enables them to consider ethical values while critiquing the epistemology of computational processes hidden beneath algorithmic outputs.展开更多
The architectural design competition remains a widely accepted method to advance design innovation, creativity, theoretical discourse, and the profession. In the rearm of healthcare facility design, by contrast, clien...The architectural design competition remains a widely accepted method to advance design innovation, creativity, theoretical discourse, and the profession. In the rearm of healthcare facility design, by contrast, clients and their sponsoring organizations seldom utilize this method. The reasons for this are many, and continue to stand in stark contrast to a growing body of evidence-based research and design （EBREtD）that is potentially of value in improving performance-based dimensions-esthetic and otherwise-of healthcare facilities globally. A comparative analysis of the entrants to a recent U.S. completion was conducted. Based on the results of this anatysis, a two-phased healthcare facility design competition paradigm is put forth that is premised on the assumption that the intuitive dimensions of design creativity can be further advanced by means of a weft timed and thoughlfur injection of quantitatively based knowtedge pertaining to patient, family, staff, and organizational concerns and priorities. This proposal＇s limitations, and future opportunities, are discussed.展开更多
文摘Purpose:This paper reviews an area of interdisciplinary collaboration in the design of healthcare facilities that attempts to optimize hospital space-planning using automated statistical techniques from the discipline of Operations Research(OR).This review articulates Facility Layout Problems(FLPs)as a general class of OR problems.Furthermore,the review highlights limitations of these techniques,which necessitate an ethical and participatory engagement with computerized processes of healthcare architecture.Design/methodology/approach:An in-depth critical review was carried out,which revealed a number of common themes,collectively theorized as metamodeling processes,or models of models,through which various FLP modelling techniques can be challenged and debated in terms of their architectural viability,and ethical ramifications.Findinss:This review provides a methodological basis for the further evaluation of computational models.It was found that most of the reviewed studies are functionally focused on flow efficiency and,in general,do not consider broader contextual,relational,social,or salutogenic design values.Orisinality/value:This review is the first on the subject written from an architectural perspective.It can be used by a broad range of readers as its critical review of past and present hospital layout modelling techniques discusses their capabilities and limitations.As such,it also enables them to consider ethical values while critiquing the epistemology of computational processes hidden beneath algorithmic outputs.
文摘The architectural design competition remains a widely accepted method to advance design innovation, creativity, theoretical discourse, and the profession. In the rearm of healthcare facility design, by contrast, clients and their sponsoring organizations seldom utilize this method. The reasons for this are many, and continue to stand in stark contrast to a growing body of evidence-based research and design （EBREtD）that is potentially of value in improving performance-based dimensions-esthetic and otherwise-of healthcare facilities globally. A comparative analysis of the entrants to a recent U.S. completion was conducted. Based on the results of this anatysis, a two-phased healthcare facility design competition paradigm is put forth that is premised on the assumption that the intuitive dimensions of design creativity can be further advanced by means of a weft timed and thoughlfur injection of quantitatively based knowtedge pertaining to patient, family, staff, and organizational concerns and priorities. This proposal＇s limitations, and future opportunities, are discussed.
