This Design 311 Core Design Studio Project focused on building furniture for a hospital room (6m x 6m, incl. bathroom) to accommodate patient visitors.
A growing body of scientific research suggests that the design of hospital rooms influences the well-being and convalescence of patients. Evidence also suggests that visits of friends and family generally contribute to improved morale, with direct benefits to patient wellbeing and convalescence. Patient rooms in most public hospitals in Canada are equipped with a limited choice of furniture for visitors.
Based on scientific evidence, we believe that emotional aspects are paramount to healing. Visitor furniture design contributes to emotional well-being through its aesthetic qualities and appropriate functionality.
The furniture must:
• fit the type of visits (number and type of visitors, length of stay);
• accommodate the computer technology that visitors use for work, information gathering and
sharing, and leisure;
• be comfortable or ergonomically sound (e.g. incongruent seat heights between the bed
and the visitors);
• be suitable for storing and consuming food;
• be efficient to clean.
• ergonomically sound (accommodate elderly);
• accommodate Asian visiting habits and preferences;
• built with sustainability in mind;
• mobile;
• easy and safe to operate;
• efficient to maintain;
• multi-functional, (convenient flat surface for working, sleeping);
• space saving;
• easy to store;
• easy to manufacture.
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