Space Planning for Healthcare Design

Daejin Kim, Dak Kopec, Jennifer Buergermeister (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2025
Fairchild Books (Verlag)
978-1-5013-7973-4 (ISBN)

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Healthcare is an evolving specialty in interior design. Space Planning for Healthcare Design will examine traditional and emerging clinical health settings and focus on a holistic approach to designing a hospital experience for different users including patients, healthcare staff, and care givers through unique space planning requirements. Spread over fourteen chapters, this book discusses specific areas common to hospitals, clinics, and out-patient facilities. Each chapter will include learning objectives, key terms, discussion questions, case studies from industry examples, and memory-minute box features to test yourself on what you have just read.

STUDIO Features Include:
-Study smarter with self-assessment quizzes featuring scored results and personalized study tips
-Review concepts with flashcards of essential vocabulary

Instructor Resources:
-Instructor’s Guide to help integrate the text into your classroom
-PowerPoint Slides for every chapter

Dak Kopec is an Architectural Psychologist and Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Dak has authored several books used by interior design educators, including four editions of Environmental Psychology for Design. He has also written the novel Broken Boys, a story that details the lives of young people coming to terms with their sexuality in the early 1990s. Dr. Kopec is a two-time Polsky Prize winner, is credited with researching, developing, and administering the first low residency graduate program focused on designs for human health at the Boston Architectural College, and has been awarded honorary Fellowship to ASID (HFASID). Dak served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii with a joint position in schools architecture and medicine, was listed as a Fulbright Specialist, and subsequently served two terms as a Fulbright Reviewer. In 2017 Dak won IDEC’s Community Service Award for the design of a group home for people with developmental disabilities and early onset dementia. Today Dak is interested in promoting healthy spaces for the LGBTQ+ community by calling upon his diverse educational background in health sciences, psychology, and architecture. He is committed to design that promotes social equality for all people.

1. Healthcare facilities then and now
2. Humanist approaches to Health Care and Healthcare Design
3. Waiting Spaces
4. Acute Care Hospitals
5. Emergency and Urgent Care Centers
6. Rehabilitation Hospitals
7. Psychiatric Facilities
8. Long Term Care and Memory Care Settings
9. Children’s Hospital and Pediatric Wards
10. Biocontainment Units (Lab)
11. OBGYN and birthing centers
12. Healthcare Clinic
13. Operating Spaces
14. Cosmetic Centers

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.4.2025
Zusatzinfo	100 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	215 x 280 mm
Themenwelt	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-5013-7973-9 / 1501379739
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-7973-4 / 9781501379734
Zustand	Neuware