Connector spaces like the atrium at the Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital Campus can be challenging to design because of multiple entryways, odd layouts and high ceilings. Interviews with patients, staff and visitors during the design process revealed that people
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Color affects the way people feel in a room, like no other design element. It can make a space feel warm and inviting, bold and energizing or cool and museum-like. Before it was renovated, the atrium at the Moses H.
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What’s the most important ingredient to designing healthcare spaces where visiting family and friends can gather and hospital staff can take breaks? It’s not the furniture or the upholstery fabric, the lighting or the artwork. It’s insights from the people
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Medical facilities must balance the necessity for easy cleaning and hygiene with the need for comfort. That often results in waiting rooms with exclusively vinyl or polyurethane upholstery, and no woven upholstery. However, there’s growing evidence healthcare spaces with home-inspired
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Waiting rooms may be distinctive by how nondescript and utilitarian they are. However, just as cities are made unique by their communities, it’s reasonable to say that community-oriented facilities like a healthcare center should reflect local character, too. The waiting
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No one likes being asked to wait. And nowhere is waiting more painful than at the doctor’s office. Already stressed by thoughts of the visit, exam or procedure ahead, time spent in the waiting room often forms the lens through
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