Architecture promotes the type and quality of care an operaf f tor expects to provide. The challenge for designers is to create environments where people live, visit and work while maximizing the ...

Evidence-based design (EBD), now a popular concept in health care facilities, is a very powerful tool. When it is used to manage IAQ through use of natural ventilation in HVAC system design, we must ...

Illustration of the experiment how an existing hospital room was transformed into a 3D virtual environment and then redesigned based on the Evidence-Based Design principle. In an online study, virtual ...

This blog post was authored by Amy Kotchevar, CID, IIDA, NCIDQ, EDAC, Senior Interior Designer, BWBR. Architecture and interior design hold incredible power to impact lives—improving patient outcomes, ...

As human beings, we cannot always control the timing and severity of illnesses, but as healthcare designers, we do have some control over the environment in which chronically or terminally ill ...

Evidence-based design has become the fastest growing trend in healthcare development. In EBD, decisions about the built environment are based on credible research that will, in turn, create the most ...

The architecture industry has historically faced representation gaps. When asked about the lack of prominent female and minority architects, Cadet pointed to the profession’s origins in the U.S. as a ...

Virginia Commonwealth School of the Arts Qatar is pioneering research at the intersection of art, design and science, collaborating ...