The Experience of Lying: designing architecture for a wholesome hospital environment. KU Leuven
Hospital buildings tend to be experienced by patients from a, for architects, atypical perspective, namely lying in a hospital bed. This altered perspective has a significant impact on patients’ spatial experience. Gaining insight into this experience is for most architects not trivial, but crucial if they are to design truly patient-centred hospitals.
This PhD research started from a twofold aim. The first aim was to gain insight into ...