Health Spaces. Hospital outdoor environment

• Main Author: Giofre', Francesca
• Other Authors: GIOFRE', Francesca
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Tesis 2015
• Subjects: open space; healthcare; design process; Terranova
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11573/932023; http://www.publicart-publicspace.org/publications/books/health-space-hospital-outdoor-environment

The book titled “Health spaces. Hospital Outdoor Environments”, involves different Italian and Serbian experts in the healthcare design and landscape, aware of the need for interdisciplinary approaches and of the significant importance that landscape design gains in these last years. The book discusses and shows design solutions aimed at creating the right balance as much between the city and the hospital’s outdoors, that much between hospital open spaces and indoor environments, in accordance with users’ needs and behaviors. The book develops the topic starting from a general approach to go on in the real case study’s analysis. According to that, it is divided in two parts: the first part collects essays on planning and design approach and the second part shows significant case studies located in Serbia and in Italy. The first part of the book collected six papers, written by Z. Ðukanović, F. Terranova, N. Beretić, F. Quici, F. Giofrè, R., R. Božović Stamenović. They explore theoretically the main topic from different points of view, from different disciplines of the architecture. The second part of the book collected seven papers written by R. D’Onofrio and E. Trusiani, A.M. Giovenale; F. Giofrè, I. Miletić, V. Napoli and G. Primiceri, V. Mandić and T. Stanisavljević , R. Belibani and M. Ciardi. The papers analyze several case study as the Piacenza Hospital complex, Policlinico Umberto I of Rome (Italy); the Clinical Center in Belgrade, Clinical Centre of Niš and Clinical Centre of Vojvodina in Novi Sad (Serbia) and more.