Description
Hospitals comprise some of the most complex buildings in real estate and key components of healthcare systems. Their sophistication increases, following medical breakthroughs, the shift of healthcare services towards the community and advances in diagnostic and intervention technologies. The dynamics of models of care, placement in healthcare systems and relations to other hospitals add to the complexity of typologies, building organization and materiality. The module explores the evolution of hospitalization, its relation to systems and care models as well as indicative types of hospital care: from community and general hospitals to tertiary, mega-hospitals and the latest concept of medical cities.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 19th August 2024.
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