@misc{c85db712f84b43c38572f5bdb0364aed,
title = "Renal and oncology unit, Perth Royal Infirmary, Perth",
keywords = "Architecture, Hospital architecture, Scotland, Architectural design",
author = "Graeme Hutton and David Jameson and \{Leadingham Jameson Rogers \& Hynd Chartered Architects\}",
note = "This research develops themes and ideas provoked by the national debate on healthcare procurement, where PFI\&PPP processes diminish the possibility of specific – condition led – architectural responses. The primary aim is to establish guidelines to ensure appropriate organisational, spatial, environmental and expressive architectural responses to specific healthcare needs. The objectives are to generate condition- specific designs, build and then evaluate these specific solutions and assess patient wellbeing. Recording and evaluating treatment requirements and patient needs in relation to specific chronic conditions and how these interface with various architectural parameters: privacy, light, sound, temperature, scale, colour, texture and so on. Generating design solutions which cross refer treatment requirements with patient needs and appropriately designed environments. On average patients undergo dialysis for periods of 6hrs three times weekly. This is a largely static, bed-chair bound process whereby, as a result of dialysis, much heat is lost from the patient; the requisite comfort levels required differs between patients and also between patients and medical staff within the same volume. Lighting needs are carefully controlled, entertainment should be available and periods of shared communication will alternate with a need for privacy – a feeling of one's own space. Individual bays are defined using a carefully articulated ceiling. The form of this maximizes reflected ambient natural or artificial light and helps zone heating and ventilation, providing a degree of individual control. Within a communal room for up to 12 patients the vaults infer a series of compartments or {\textquoteleft}places{\textquoteright}. Further to the above the strategic zoning and primary organisation of the design eradicates cross circulation between {\textquoteleft}clean{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteleft}dirty{\textquoteright} elements of the building. This minimises the risk of cross contamination with MRSA and other bacteria. ",
year = "2008",
language = "English",
publisher = "Leadingham Jameson Rogers \& Hynd Chartered Architects (LJRH Chartered Architects)",
type = "Other",
}