published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Landscape Architecture

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Landscape Architecture

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Landscape Architecture

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Architecture

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Architecture

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Architecture

China is engaged in the largest healthcare construction program in history, expecting to build more than 2,000 hospitals and a large number of healthcare facilities at all scale over the next few years. This once-in-a-lifetime construction boom provides a valuable opportunity to rethink Chinese hospital design, and especially to consider how to design modern hospitals that are effective and efficient in delivering care, and are responsive to the cultural needs of the Chinese people as well. This dissertation seeks to rigorously define these issues and develop metrics that link design to key healthcare processes. This study uses a range of concepts and analysis tools drawn from cross-culture organizational communications, evidence-based design, space syntax and other research traditions. This thesis develops and refines metrics for four main drivers of nursing unit design: space economy, staff efficiency, natural light and cultural preferences for communication. Communication among Chinese healthcare workers is strongly influenced by cultural preferences for patterns of authority and decision-making reflected in organizational culture and rooted in Confucian principles of hierarchical social structure (Dengji), social network (Guanxi) and face (Mianzi). While the dissertation builds on a longstanding tradition of research focusing on healthcare space economy and staff efficiency, new measures for cultural preferences are proposed and tested. Based on emerging theories of cross-cultural organizational communication by Hofstede and other scholars, and space syntax, this study particularly explores how cultural preferences for face-to-face communication are reflected in the design of Chinese nursing units. Based on the proposed metrics, the dissertation analyzes six pairs of Chinese and US nursing units, matched on layout type. While the Chinese nursing units appear Western, deeper quantitative analysis of their layouts reveals significant national differences in the application of unit typologies in China when compared to those in the U.S. It shows that Chinese hospital design is rooted in cultural preferences such as for positive energy (qi) based on Fengshui theory, and in Confucian principles of hierarchy, social networking and face.

Lam Kwai Pui, Patrick. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2009-2010, design report." / "May 2010." / Chapter 0.0 --- Abstract / [Introduction] / Chapter 1.0 --- Inspiration / Chapter 1.1 --- "Theory - ""a city is not a tree""" / Chapter 1.2 --- Theory - Symbiosis / Chapter 1.3 --- Buffer zone in nature- Rock / Chapter 2.0 --- Issue / Chapter 2.1 --- Urban Phenomenon / Chapter 2.2 --- Problematic aspects / [Research] / Chapter 3.0 --- Precedent Studies / Chapter 3.1 --- Contextual Figure and Ground / Chapter 3.2 --- Planar Proportion and Dimension / Chapter 3.3 --- Planar Programme / Chapter 3.4 --- Sectional Proportion and Dimension / Chapter 3.5 --- Sectional Programme / Chapter 3.6 --- Photo / Chapter 4.0 --- Waterway analysis / Chapter 5.0 --- Environmental analysis / Chapter 5.1 --- Hong Kong Natural coastal Typology / Chapter 5.2 --- Under Sea Contour / Chapter 5.3 --- Tidal change and Typhoon surge / Chapter 6.0 --- Site Intervention / Chapter 6.1 --- Waterfront Accessibility / Chapter 6.2 --- Transportation / Chapter 6.3 --- Public Amenities and Greenery / [Design] / Chapter 7.0 --- Grid Layout / Chapter 7.1 --- Grid Transformation / Chapter 7.2 --- Adaptation to Waterfront Geometry' / Chapter 8.0 --- Urban Structure / Chapter 8.1 --- "Fabric, Network & Programme Distribution" / Chapter 8.2 --- Sectional Network System / Chapter 8.3 --- Overall Geometry Definition / Chapter 8.4 --- Overall Network Definition / Chapter 9.0 --- Houisng Form & Sunligt Hour / Chapter 9.1 --- Generic Development Problems / Chapter 9.2 --- Criteria Setting / Chapter 9.3 --- Strategy to Waterfront Context / Chapter 9.4 --- Strategy to public open space / Chapter 9.5 --- Strategy to Communal open space & Street / Chapter 9.6 --- Final Result / Chapter 9.7 --- Integration with Diamond Grid / Chapter 9.8 --- Integration Final Result / Chapter 10.0 --- Design Development / Chapter 10.1 --- Territorial scale Planar Justification / Chapter 10.2 --- Fabric scale Planar Justification / Chapter 10.3 --- Fabric scale Sectional Justification / Chapter 10.4 --- Building scale Planar Justification / Chapter 10.5 --- 1:2000 Conceptual Model / Chapter 10.6 --- 1:1000 Study Model / Chapter 10.7 --- 1:500 Fabric Model / Chapter 10.8 --- 1:200 Housing Model

Kwong Hon Wing. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 1998-99, design report." / Includes bibliographical references.

published_or_final_version / abstract / Architecture / Master / Master of Landscape Architecture