Insights from a Healthcare Architect’s Journal

By Tim Spence

The best way to gain perspective is through experience. Learning how a patient and their family member respond to a facility’s design requires taking the patient’s perspective. Designers don’t know all the unique aspects which brought each project to market. Still, they benefit from understanding the relationship between design decisions and the overall effectiveness of the facility in practice.

There has been a humanizing of healthcare spaces over the past 20 years. Where the focus prior was on strategic concepts such as flow, throughput, and adjacencies, today, there is a much more human approach.