Thesis (M.S. (Hons.)) -- University of Western Sydney, 2002. / Supervisors: Joan Grounds (primary), Jill Westwood. Bibliography : leaves 46-48.

Este trabalho objetiva analisar as composições cromáticas aplicadas, no ambiente hospitalar, buscando uma correlação entre as cores usadas, nas composições e no bem-estar físico, psicológico, emocional e social de pacientes hospitalares, tendo em vista possíveis influências ao tratamento terapêutico de cura. Partiu-se do princípio que o ambiente construído influencia ações, sentimentos e emoções humanas. A cor, sendo um dos principais elementos da arquitetura, participa ativamente às respostas humanas decorrentes de sua interação com o ambiente. O estudo compreendeu as questões relativas às cores em todos os seus aspectos e as inúmeras possibilidades de suas aplicações na arquitetura. Focou-se o estudo, no ambiente hospitalar, que vem passando por reformulações, guiadas por pesquisas, nas áreas da psicologia ambiental, neurociência e psicofísica. Levantando-se as recentes conceituações e diretrizes projetuais para o design do ambiente hospitalar, foi possível verificar a ocorrência das composições cromáticas como elementos transformadores. Por fim, para demonstrar as relações que se estabeleceram entre as composições cromáticas, o design do ambiente hospitalar e a promoção à saúde, constituindo projetos denominados de Hospitais do Futuro, foram apresentados três casos, cujos projetos ilustram representativamente as questões debatidas neste trabalho. Ao se realçar o papel das composições cromáticas e do design hospitalar, no processo de recuperação da saúde e no bem-estar dos usuários, evidenciou-se o papel do arquiteto como agente central, possibilitando e criando condições ideais para o tratamento terapêutico e para o desenvolvimento das atividades. Foi identificado, como resultado da pesquisa, que o design, capaz dessas transformações, deve, acima de tudo, considerar a variedade de estímulos, e voltando-se às composições cromáticas, representa as variedades de matizes, a contraposição de brilho das superfícies e o uso de contrastes. / This paper aims to analyze the chromatic compositions applied in the hospital environment, looking for a correlation between the colors used in the compositions and the physical, psychological, emotional and social well-being of the hospital patients, with a view to its possible influence in therapeutic healing. It started from the assumption that the built environment influences in actions, feelings and human emotions. The color, one of the main elements of architecture, participates actively in the responses resulting from human interaction with the environment. The study included questions relating to color in all its aspects and the many possibilities of its applications in architecture. It was also focused in the hospital environment, subject that has been under reformulations guided by researches in the fields of environmental psychology, neuroscience and psychophysics. Raising the recent conceptualizations and projective guidelines for the hospital environment design, it was possible to detect the chromatic compositions as elements capable to transform. Finally, to demonstrate the relationships established between the chromatic compositions, the design of hospitals environment and health promotion, composing projects named as \"Hospitals of the Future\", three cases were presented, whose projects representatively illustrate the issues discussed in this paper. By highlighting the function of chromatic compositions of the hospital environment design in the process of regaining the users health and well-being, the role of the architect as a central agent was demonstrated, enabling and creating ideal conditions for the therapeutic treatment and for the activities development. As a result of the research, it was identified that the design capable of these transformations must above all consider the variety of stimuli, and turning to the chromatic compositions, it represents the variety of hues, the contraposition of the surface brightness and the use of contrasts.

Este trabalho objetiva analisar as composições cromáticas aplicadas, no ambiente hospitalar, buscando uma correlação entre as cores usadas, nas composições e no bem-estar físico, psicológico, emocional e social de pacientes hospitalares, tendo em vista possíveis influências ao tratamento terapêutico de cura. Partiu-se do princípio que o ambiente construído influencia ações, sentimentos e emoções humanas. A cor, sendo um dos principais elementos da arquitetura, participa ativamente às respostas humanas decorrentes de sua interação com o ambiente. O estudo compreendeu as questões relativas às cores em todos os seus aspectos e as inúmeras possibilidades de suas aplicações na arquitetura. Focou-se o estudo, no ambiente hospitalar, que vem passando por reformulações, guiadas por pesquisas, nas áreas da psicologia ambiental, neurociência e psicofísica. Levantando-se as recentes conceituações e diretrizes projetuais para o design do ambiente hospitalar, foi possível verificar a ocorrência das composições cromáticas como elementos transformadores. Por fim, para demonstrar as relações que se estabeleceram entre as composições cromáticas, o design do ambiente hospitalar e a promoção à saúde, constituindo projetos denominados de Hospitais do Futuro, foram apresentados três casos, cujos projetos ilustram representativamente as questões debatidas neste trabalho. Ao se realçar o papel das composições cromáticas e do design hospitalar, no processo de recuperação da saúde e no bem-estar dos usuários, evidenciou-se o papel do arquiteto como agente central, possibilitando e criando condições ideais para o tratamento terapêutico e para o desenvolvimento das atividades. Foi identificado, como resultado da pesquisa, que o design, capaz dessas transformações, deve, acima de tudo, considerar a variedade de estímulos, e voltando-se às composições cromáticas, representa as variedades de matizes, a contraposição de brilho das superfícies e o uso de contrastes. / This paper aims to analyze the chromatic compositions applied in the hospital environment, looking for a correlation between the colors used in the compositions and the physical, psychological, emotional and social well-being of the hospital patients, with a view to its possible influence in therapeutic healing. It started from the assumption that the built environment influences in actions, feelings and human emotions. The color, one of the main elements of architecture, participates actively in the responses resulting from human interaction with the environment. The study included questions relating to color in all its aspects and the many possibilities of its applications in architecture. It was also focused in the hospital environment, subject that has been under reformulations guided by researches in the fields of environmental psychology, neuroscience and psychophysics. Raising the recent conceptualizations and projective guidelines for the hospital environment design, it was possible to detect the chromatic compositions as elements capable to transform. Finally, to demonstrate the relationships established between the chromatic compositions, the design of hospitals environment and health promotion, composing projects named as \"Hospitals of the Future\", three cases were presented, whose projects representatively illustrate the issues discussed in this paper. By highlighting the function of chromatic compositions of the hospital environment design in the process of regaining the users health and well-being, the role of the architect as a central agent was demonstrated, enabling and creating ideal conditions for the therapeutic treatment and for the activities development. As a result of the research, it was identified that the design capable of these transformations must above all consider the variety of stimuli, and turning to the chromatic compositions, it represents the variety of hues, the contraposition of the surface brightness and the use of contrasts.

This is a study of the spatial affordances of buildings that allow them to organize and transmit cultural ideas and to support the performance of organizational roles. The particular affordances under consideration are those that arise from the manner in which buildings structure the visual fields that are potentially available to a situated observer. In studying directed visibility patterns, supported by the development of appropriate analytical tools, we focus on a previously specified set of visual targets and ask how many become visible from each occupiable location. Parametric restrictions concerning the direction into which a subject faces and the viewing angle sustained by the target object are also taken into consideration. The aim is to demonstrate how such refinements of visibility analysis, lead to more precise and penetrating insights as to how building users tune their behavior to the spatial affordances of environment, and how the environment impacts their understanding in turn. Three different studies were presented. The fist used directed visibility measures to evaluate the affordances of different nursing-unit designs relative to how well nurses are able to survey patients in different rooms as they go about their duties. The second study focuses on the manner in which nurses and physicians position themselves in a Neuro Intensive Care Unit (ICU), particularly when interacting. The third study investigates how aware exhibition visitors become of the visual structure of environment and how the visibility structure of exhibitions affects the ability of visitors to conceptually group paintings according to their thematic content. The case studies support the following conclusions. 1) The way in which people position themselves in an environment as they perform their assigned tasks is tuned to the way in which visual fields are structured. 2) The visual structure of environment is contingent upon the interaction between the underlying structure of visual fields and paths of movement. 3) Directed visibility analysis leads to stronger correlations with behavior and performance than generic visibility analysis. This implies that environments are layered. Their underlying spatial structure is charged by the distribution of the contents that are programmatically primary.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:09:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 3152.pdf: 1091086 bytes, checksum: 449d433a11946823c37ec5ada9876e61 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-08-12 / Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos / This paper aims to propose guidelines for the design process of hospital buildings. To achieve this objective, literature review and case studies were conducted in three architectural firms specializing in projects for hospital buildings. It was possible to see how management is performed in the design process in each of these companies and what are the difficulties and differences between the design process of hospital buildings and design process of other built environments. The Company 1 has been operating for 11 years developing architectural plans for the hospital and residential segments, which contributed to identifying the differences between the design processes of these two segments. The Company 2 has been operating for 3 years coordinating the design process of residential, hospital, shopping and hotels, bringing a vision of the management process. The Company 3 has extensive experience in developing architectural plans for the hospital segment, serving for 32 years exclusively in this segment. The observation of the work of these companies, together with the literature review served as a subsidy for the drafting of guidelines for the design process of hospital buildings, as a contribution to the quality of it. / Este trabalho tem como objetivo propor diretrizes para o processo de projeto de edifícios hospitalares. Para alcançar este objetivo, foram realizados revisão bibliográfica e estudos de caso em três escritórios de arquitetura, especializados em projetos para edifícios hospitalares. Foi possível verificar como é realizada a gestão do processo de projeto em cada uma dessas empresas e quais as dificuldades e diferenças encontradas entre o processo de projeto de edifícios hospitalares e o processo de projeto de outros ambientes construídos. A Empresa 1 atua há 11 anos desenvolvendo projetos arquitetônicos para os segmentos hospitalar e residencial, o que contribuiu para verificar as diferenças entre o processo de projeto desses dois segmentos. A Empresa 2 atua há 3 anos coordenando o processo de projeto de obras residenciais, hospitalares, comerciais e de hotelaria, trazendo uma visão gerencial do processo. A Empresa 3 possui uma vasta experiência no desenvolvimento de projetos arquitetônicos para o segmento hospitalar, atuando há 32 anos exclusivamente neste segmento. A observação do trabalho destas empresas, juntamente com a revisão da literatura, serviu de subsídio para a elaboração das diretrizes para o processo de projeto de edifícios hospitalares, como forma de contribuir com a qualidade do mesmo.

The purpose of the study was to develop practice guidelines to promote adherence to infection control standards in a specific hospital in Manzini, Swaziland. It was a qualitative, descriptive and explanatory design which utilised an in-depth unstructured face to face interview data collection method done to nine (9) registered nurse participants. A qualitative content analysis was conducted to identify prominent themes and patterns, smaller units of data were named and coded according to the contents they represented. Four themes emerged from data analysis, they were; working environment for nurses, nurse’s descriptions of infection control standards, nurse’s challenges regarding adherence to infection control standards and nurses expressed needs. The findings revealed possible contributing factors to non-adherence to infection control standards by participants and therefore denoted to a serious need for development of general guidelines to promote adherence to infection control standards, these guidelines were presented. / Health Studies / M. A. (Health Studies)

The purpose of the study was to develop practice guidelines to promote adherence to infection control standards in a specific hospital in Manzini, Swaziland. It was a qualitative, descriptive and explanatory design which utilised an in-depth unstructured face to face interview data collection method done to nine (9) registered nurse participants. A qualitative content analysis was conducted to identify prominent themes and patterns, smaller units of data were named and coded according to the contents they represented. Four themes emerged from data analysis, they were; working environment for nurses, nurse’s descriptions of infection control standards, nurse’s challenges regarding adherence to infection control standards and nurses expressed needs. The findings revealed possible contributing factors to non-adherence to infection control standards by participants and therefore denoted to a serious need for development of general guidelines to promote adherence to infection control standards, these guidelines were presented. / Health Studies / M. A. (Health Studies)