In the last decades both care and hospital have faced intense transformations. Hospital is not only called to assure quality of care in order to remove or reduce a condition of disease, but it has to answer to new social needs to provide citizens’ health rights. Hospital have also become a complex structure, connected to the city and territory, where the traditional health functions are developed to promote values that underlie the community, such as solidarity, equity, participation. These values come true through social interactions that occur in hospital spaces and they are the condition of the effective enjoyments of rights. The aim of this paper is to highlight as architecture contributes to promote effective enjoyment of social rights in hospital care. In order to face this study public spaces in hospital represent the most interesting sphere because they are the primary welcoming spaces for patients, visitors, citizens and at the same time they are the primary space to address the users towards the hospital activities of care. The relationship among social right, social relations and space can be study only with the contribution of different disciplines: architecture, law and social science. Thus the interdisciplinary approach is a fundamental requirement and represents the added value of the research. Since the focus of the research on the ‘relation-based approach’ as new paradigm of right to health, we decided to investigate how space affects the experience of patient in public spaces. Research methodology consists of a survey-based approach to collect information on aspects of the ‘relations’, analysing case studies of hospital buildings. We combined spatial analysis of hospital layout with observations of user behaviour. The direct comparison between use pattern and spatial characteristics led up to identify two results: a set of interdisciplinary meaningful topic for interrelation between space and rights; a set of spatial indicators for each meaningful topic.

How Architecture promote Right to Health in Hospital / Torricelli, Maria Chiara; Setola, Nicoletta; Borgianni, Sabrina. - ELETTRONICO. - (2013), pp. 0-0. (Intervento presentato al convegno 19th CIB World Building Congress, Brisbane 2013: Construction and Society tenutosi a Brisbane nel 5-9.05.2013).

How Architecture promote Right to Health in Hospital

TORRICELLI, MARIA CHIARA;SETOLA, NICOLETTA;BORGIANNI, SABRINA
2013

Abstract

In the last decades both care and hospital have faced intense transformations. Hospital is not only called to assure quality of care in order to remove or reduce a condition of disease, but it has to answer to new social needs to provide citizens’ health rights. Hospital have also become a complex structure, connected to the city and territory, where the traditional health functions are developed to promote values that underlie the community, such as solidarity, equity, participation. These values come true through social interactions that occur in hospital spaces and they are the condition of the effective enjoyments of rights. The aim of this paper is to highlight as architecture contributes to promote effective enjoyment of social rights in hospital care. In order to face this study public spaces in hospital represent the most interesting sphere because they are the primary welcoming spaces for patients, visitors, citizens and at the same time they are the primary space to address the users towards the hospital activities of care. The relationship among social right, social relations and space can be study only with the contribution of different disciplines: architecture, law and social science. Thus the interdisciplinary approach is a fundamental requirement and represents the added value of the research. Since the focus of the research on the ‘relation-based approach’ as new paradigm of right to health, we decided to investigate how space affects the experience of patient in public spaces. Research methodology consists of a survey-based approach to collect information on aspects of the ‘relations’, analysing case studies of hospital buildings. We combined spatial analysis of hospital layout with observations of user behaviour. The direct comparison between use pattern and spatial characteristics led up to identify two results: a set of interdisciplinary meaningful topic for interrelation between space and rights; a set of spatial indicators for each meaningful topic.
2013
Proceedings of the 19th CIB World Building Congress, Brisbane 2013: Construction and Society
19th CIB World Building Congress, Brisbane 2013: Construction and Society
Brisbane
5-9.05.2013
Torricelli, Maria Chiara; Setola, Nicoletta; Borgianni, Sabrina
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