Julian Weyer

Partner, architect at C.F. Møller Architects

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I vote for Black Horse Yard by @Swanhousing for the People's Choice Prize - shortlisted for #NLAwards19 Mixed-use, https://t.co/0ocIcuHEEm @nlalondon

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#buildingsthatcare At Hospice Djursland, many patients ironically get better when leaving the somatic hospital and getting closer to nature

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In Denmark, we consider a healing environment and effectiveness to be
partners that walk hand in hand, rather than opposites

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Indeed, Scandinavia has realized that architectural quality can be part of the economic efficiency - good hospital design = shorter stays

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Integrate technology for maximum efficiency and relieving staff - but without making the hospital feel like a machine.

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Every patient group requires a hospital’s design to command special
architectural attention - consider who will come there:

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For example using landscape and green settings, for people’s physical and mental well-being, but also to create sense in complex designs

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We encourage architects to help define standards before they become the rules, not to create form but performance!

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Hospital design should also help create trust & interaction between staff and patients - like in Oslo, where they meet literally at eyelevel

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Another place where standards can be positive is in working environments - bringing daylight to all functions of hospitals, not just wards

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We have worked much with developing standards via user-involvment and evidence-based design - fx. single-bed wards focused on patients.

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Not necessarily, as long as standardization focuses on efficiency of operations, helping staff etc. - but it should embrace quality too.

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Sustainable design objectives should lead to building-integrated humanity, rather than add-on solutions, so technology alone will not do it

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We design based on knowledge of how people navigate and form a ”mental map” of the premises in their brains, to unity small and large spaces

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Hospitals are communities in themselves, and should encourage more interaction - connecting people, and inspiring them.

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@scottgrady23 @ArchitectsJrnal Right - the public groundfloor should be a direct analogy to the urban street, which is familiar to all.

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Designing the super-large structures like a city, we can enable intuitive and autonomous wayfinding for all users - because it makes sense:

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And it's not just about patients, also staff - large-scale hands-on user involvement is a way to assure that designs work, and feel right:

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We describe the large hospitals as the cathedrals of the welfare society, but these major structures are broken down into fathomable units.

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Hospitals are decreasing in number, but increasing in size - the first step is understanding we can't simply scale up yesterday's solutions.