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Revolutionising Healthcare (Part 2): The patient – caregiver interface

In an earlier post I have already described how a hospital in the Netherlands is attempting to revolutionising healthcare (by organising – among other things – a flexible working environment that actually works). In this post I want to elaborate on a different aspect of the hospital design of Orbis and investigate how the spatial…

October 24, 2012 in Buildings, People, Space, Space Syntax, Usage.

Revolutionising Healthcare (Part 1): Flexible Working

I’ve recently had the pleasure to visit a hospital in The Netherlands on a research trip and was very impressed with the ways in which the Orbis Medical Centre in Sittard was organised – spatially as well as culturally. Orbis clearly aims at doing things differently in Healthcare and as such can teach us a…

September 12, 2012 in Buildings, People, Usage.

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