Design for Healthcare Experience: Exploring Glass Solutions
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Design for Healthcare Experience: Exploring Glass Solutions
In our most vulnerable moments, the hospitals and clinics, where healthcare happens, offer hope. Designed well, these physical structures become an extension of care. Increasingly, architects and institutions are looking to glass as a material that shapes healthcare experiences and outcomes.
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In healthcare settings, the quality of experience matters even more. The aim is to support recovery and healing as well as elevate comfort and control.
Sophisticated choices and applications of glass not only transmit light, but manage light to help maintain optimal indoor temperatures, reduce glare and eyestrain for patients and caregivers, enhance safety and security, and control sound to promote rest and privacy. Effective glass solutions also consider local climate, the surroundings and orientation of the building, and the goals and constraints of the specific application.
Physical structures: an extension of care
Glass creates a unique patient care experience through:
- natural daylight and views
- security and safety enhancement
- sound and reduce noise management
- patients and caregivers confort
- aesthetics and confidence elevation
- energy saving for life-saving care
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