Medical Center

framework for the concept

-Emphasis on quality of architectural design importance of high quality environmental factors.

-Emphasis on the patient as an individual.

-It is people that regenerate places, not places that regenerate people. Over reliance on economic, social and physical modelling techniques and statistical analysis at the expense of visual stimulus, under-values the importance of architecture

-The patient must come first -Buildings have not played a key role in health policy, but need to in future.

-There is a high incidence of curved shapes in the design of small health buildings. The building form envelopes the user, provides comfort and is reassuring. It is non-threatening, and not confrontational. By a combination of form, light and color, buildings around the world straddle cultural differences with an architectural language which individuals can recognize whatever their mother tongue.