Event held by Architects for Health on Thursday 24 November 2005 at Anshen Dyer Offices, One Oliver’s Yard, City Road, London. The Annual General Meeting preceded this Event.
Event Chair: Ann Noble (Welcome and Introduction)
Event Sponsor: Dräger Medical (5 min presentation)
Presentations
- Sense Sensitive Design, Emotional Mapping and Design Description
- Richard Mazuch – Director of Design, Nightingale Associates, London
In the last eight years, Richard Mazuch has extensively researched and developed the ‘Sense Sensitive Design’, ‘Emotional Mapping’ and the new ‘Design Prescription’ design tools. Unique to Nightingale Associates healthcare architects these design tools have been developed to enable the designers and planners to design individual spaces more skilfully and incisively, focusing on key design issues including the psychological and physiological affects of colour, light, views, smell, noise, etc on patients. Nightingale’s ground-breaking research on the healing aspects of design has been widely recognised and Richard Mazuch has assisted the Treasury Taskforce in producing key national guidelines. The emotional well-being of patients is part of a holistic approach to design which is being implemented at hospitals such as the London Clinic. - The Hospital of the Future; “Flexibility”, “Performance”, and “Delivering the Client’s Enterprise”
- Jim Jonassen – Managing Partner of NBBJ, Seattle, USA
Jim will present the Banner Estrella (multiple design award winning hospital in Arizona) and several on health projects (Reebok, Telenor, Boeing) to illustrate the above topics as examples.
The Banner Estrella hospital utilizes state-of-the-art technology to improve the patient experience. Examples include computerized patient documentation such as a computerized physician order entry system, which eliminates paper flip charts, allowing doctors to automatically update patient information and place medication orders subsequently reducing/eliminating medical errors. It also provides a healing environment where soothing colors, natural light and comfortable furnishings, to name a few, are used extensively.
NBBJ is an award winning global design firm with offices in five North American cities, Beijing, Shanghai, Dubai and London. Their healthcare specialists include not only architects and planners who have devoted their careers to health care design, but health care practitioners who have developed specialized expertise in analyzing facility and operational requirements. Founded in 1943 in Seattle, NBBJ established a London studio in 2001.The London studio has recently opened the £90m Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in Hinxton, Cambridge; and is currently designing projects in the UK, Europe and Middle East.
Event sponsor: Dräger Medical
An Architects for Health Event – 24 November 2005
