Schematic Design, Concept Update


The relationship between the patients,the nurses and doctors(clients) is a social collaborative effort. They work together for a main purpose which is to get better and everyday is a healing process. The male and female(clients(nurses,doctors) bird work together to provide a nest for the little one until the bird (patients) is capable to fly on its own and leave the nest. The group room was really plain and everybody was facing toward the tv. I was thinking that the patients would have engaged more in conversation and activites if they facing each other in a circle. The tv can be located in the ceiling and the board games in the middle table. In the right up corner there is a quick sketch for the patient rooms in the D ward.


Photo credit: www.epa.gov/gmpo/education/photo/birds-animals.html

Concept

Embracing the healing process of the client (patients) by introducing to them softer materials, warm colors, form and order where they can captualize themselves in the space that they occupy [space within a space].

Precedent Study:St.Josephs at St.Paul,Minnesota






Project 2:Child and Adolescent Unit at the Central Regional Hospital, Butner

For project two we are focusing our attention on the task of designing the interiors of the Child and Adolescent Unit of the Central Regional Hospital at Butner,NC. The Department of Health and Human Services consolidated two aging psychiatric hospitals located in Raleigh and Butner, North Carolina into a single new 432 bed facility located in Butner, North Carolina [www.freelon.com].