Bates Smart comment: Can city-making inform hospital design?

This comment piece by Bates Smart associate director, Alison Huynh, originally appeared in INDESIGN #87, the Health & Wellbeing issue. Find out more about the magazine and subscribe here.
Healthcare facilities are places in which we must muster all our physical, mental and emotional strengths, despite great odds. Patients are nervous, weak and in pain. Families and carers are worried, emotional. Staff are highly focused, stressed and time-poor.We know that the hospital setting can impact exp