London design house PreistmanGoode has just released their “healthcare manifesto” and proposal. Britain’s Design Council asked PG to rethink and redesign the hospital ward. Their solution is space-efficient, pre-fabricated bedroom units very similar to that of a first-class cabin. If you think about it hospital wards and aircraft cabins do have many similarities. They both need to be easily accessible by nurses or stewardesses, they both need to be space efficient and they both need to offer some kind of privacy and homey feeling to the patient or passenger. PG’s design consists of pre-fabricated, lie-flat beds and room dividers, very similar to the first-class cabins that they designed for Swiss Airlines. The arrangement of the units allows nurses to easily access the patients while still maintaining some sort of privacy. I think the design is very smart but in practice I don’t know if I would really work out well. These units would take the place of private room, offering less privacy for patients, which they would not like. Also the design does not take into consideration bathroom and patients who need to be quarantined.
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