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5 criteria to optimize medical office design

BD+C

5 criteria to optimize medical office design 0 rcassidy Sun, 03/17/2024 - 09:30 Healthcare Facilities Healthcare designers need to consider privacy, separate areas for practitioners, natural light, outdoor spaces, and thoughtful selection of materials for medical office buildings. But a health worker’s job is not easy.

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Smart Home Technology: The Healthy, Aging-Friendly Living Companions of the Future

Pro Builder

Innovative home technology is gaining traction in the residential world, but older users are still hesitant to welcome some smart features into their homes. . Smart technology can connect and support aging adults and simplify everyday tasks while automatically altering home environments to keep the air clean and healthy.

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Untraditional ‘Back To Work’ survey results for designers' insights

BD+C

We connected with hundreds of people—clients, partners, friends, family—to gather data-driven insights into how we should be designing for the post-pandemic workplace. Less Privacy + More Choice = Greater Productivity Drilling down into the numbers, some of our old assumptions about employee preferences turned out to be false.

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Custom Home: A Modern Design of Light and Magic

Pro Builder

I think this home makes the case that using an atrium to provide a source of light and connection to the outdoors is incredibly important,” says architect Donald Ruthroff, AIA, principal at Dahlin Architecture | Planning | Interiors, in Pleasanton, Calif. “I I would argue that it brings a sort of magic to Luminosa.”.

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4 New Live/Work Housing Design Solutions

Pro Builder

This townhome plan utilizes two small offices with pocket doors, which enable the spaces to live larger when the doors are open and provide quiet when privacy is needed. . A Zoom room/flex office with additional soundproofing and solid-core door for privacy. D Transom windows over doors provide natural light and visual connectivity.

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Building with Recycled Tile

Natural Building

One of the main considerations in designing the project was to create continuity between the interior and the natural landscape outside, while still offering privacy within. The accent wall here is made with terra cotta chimney tiles and serves as a welcome marker. The windows can open up to let the building cross-ventilate naturally.

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Optimizing interior design for human health

BD+C

We design interiors to create healthy, welcoming, and comfortable spaces that encourage productivity and positivity, and in turn generate economic benefits. Recent studies of the human brain have shown that our surroundings can influence our moods and mental health as well as our physical comfort.

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