posted on 2016-07-25, 14:16authored byNadeeshani Wanigarathna, F. Sherratt, Andrew Price, Simon Austin
In the UK, healthcare built environment design is guided by a series of long
established design standards and guidance issued by the Department of Health. More recently, healthcare design focus has broadened to encompass new approaches, supported by large bodies of credible research evidence. It is therefore timely to rethink how healthcare design standards and guidance should be best expressed to suit ‘designerly ways’ of using evidence, to improve their use and effectiveness in practice. This research explored how designers use performance and prescriptive approaches during the healthcare design process. Three in-depth healthcare built environment case studies were used to explore
how designers employed such approaches during the design of selected exemplar
design elements. Results show that design elements in the pre and conceptual
design phases significantly employed performance based approaches, and due to
project-unique circumstances, prescriptive solutions were often significantly
modified based on performance criteria. For design elements in the detailed and technical design phases, there was significant use of solutions based on
prescriptive approaches, whilst performance-based criteria were used to evaluate design solutions. This research proposes a performance-based, specification
driven healthcare design with supplementary prescriptive specifications provided
for optimum healthcare environment design.
History
School
Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Published in
Architectural Engineering and Design Management Journal
Citation
Wanigarathna, N. ...et al., 2016. Healthcare designers’ use of prescriptive and performance-based approaches. Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 12 (6), pp. 427-441.
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Acceptance date
2016-07-05
Publication date
2016
Notes
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Architectural Engineering and Design Management on 03 Aug 2016, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17452007.2016.1212692