Indoor and outdoor spaces design quality and its contribution to sustainable ho...

• Author(s): Castro, Maria de Fátima ; Mateus, Ricardo ; Bragança, L.
• Date: 2013
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/24909
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Assessment; Design; Hospitals; Sustainability
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

The hospital project contains different aspects from the most common projects of residential, offices or services buildings. In common buildings, sometimes the user and the client are the same and when they are not, setting the requirements is not difficult since they are common to most inhabitants. In the case of hospital buildings this is not the reality and the project team is usually hired for the purpose of designing a building that includes different spaces and different users, such as doctors, nurses, patients, visitors, cleaning staff, etc. In this sense it is important to combine different spatial needs, which are always subject to constant changes throughout its period of use due to new features, innovations, needs expansion and new treatment methods. This paper aims to study the importance of the space design in the sustainable construction of hospital buildings.