“Some hospitals are taking evidence-based design seriously,” said Roger Ulrich, director of the Center for Health Systems and Design at Texas A&M. “Other institutions use pretty traditional design that pays lip service to the evidence. There may be high style, but the hospital is still noisy. Or the windows are too small to let much light in. There are missed opportunities.”
what is new hospital design giving every patient a single room and lots of light. that is correct! So what is new about that, well think back in the “age” the rich had their own room and lots of light cause they are high class, it is just that now, hospitals are now thinking of removing the “let everyone equal” to the new approach “let everyone be high class.” but being high class has a price… it is costly to build and maintain.
That is my annoyance, this is not innovation but just a regenerating idea what we had in the past.
okay… should i reconsider my career as a product designer? ….[thinking]…. nah… but it is tempting.
The Berlin based interdisciplinary collective raumlabor was founded in 1999 and is focused on visionary projects in urban and architectural contexts.
Their latest project Spacebuster is a mobile inflatable structure – a portable, expandable pavilion which is mounted on a van and provided place to a 10-day programme of lectures, workshops, screenings and performances, organised by the New York based gallery Storefront.
Walk around the place du Molard in Geneva, Switzerland, and you’ll be walking on stars. Two thousand LED light sources equipped with 10 000 white Power TOPLEDs have been set into the paving stones. As the sun begins to set, the LEDs begin to shine, giving the square a magical aura.
When the Place du Molard was renovated, it was paved with cobble stones, identical to those which one already finds in the city center. Two thousand resin paving stones have been set in between, covering half a percent of the surface of the place. At nightfall the LED illuminated paving stones begin to shine, reproducing the shine and the silver-colored reflections of the Lake Geneva. The illuminated paving stones accumulate when approaching the lake and remind at the twinkling water, which penetrated up to this place in former times.
The seating comprises a fibreglass shell and steel frame, covered in stretchy fabric.
Milan 09: Helsinki-based, Japanese designer Arihiro Miyake exhibits an extension cable that incorporates a fabric container for wires at SaloneSatellite in Milan, which ends today.
Called Trush In, the design has two sockets and is presented in green, red and black.
Above is an image of 1301 fluorescent tubes powered only by the electric fields generated by overhead powerlines. It was created by Richard Box while artist-in-residence at Bristol University’s physics department.
He got the idea for the installation after a chance conversation with a friend. ‘He was telling me he used to play with a fluorescent tube under the pylons by his house,’ says Box. ‘He said it lit up like a light sabre.’ Box decided to see if he could fill a field with tubes lit by powerlines. After a few weeks hunting for a site, he found a field, slipped the local farmer £200 and planted 3,600 square metres with tubes collected from hospitals.
besides public restroom and metro design i also like going to a grocery store – any new grocery store — to see how they layout the merchandise. Even in america, the stores are different and have preferences to what their costumers want from their stores. And of course the ranking of stores to the costumer deem as the low end store to the rich high end store or to the organic stores.
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