Healthcare architecture: a powerful instrument to create a comfortable environment

The extent to which a building can speed up a patient’s recovery is anybody’s guess, but based on our experience, we think that the right surroundings can contribute significantly to the state of health of its users. In days gone by, healthcare buildings often were separate worlds focused on functionality, mostly as dictated by the healthcare process rather than by the requirements of patients or occupants. New healthcare buildings too need to support a highly effective and stimulating work environment as well as state-of-the-art technology and infrastructure, but we think the focus should be on the building’s occupants or patients. In our vision, architecture can be a powerful instrument to help make a stay agreeable, and perhaps even to speed up recovery and development.