The reason behind this article is the idea that “Expandable Hospital Competitions” are significant architectural events due to their organization in two different countries. Additionally, the research topic becomes much important due to the differences in “Hospital Design Standards” arising from the lapse of time as almost half a century since such competitions are organized at different times. The first competition, called “Expandable Hospital,” is organized in Turkey in the year 1975, while the second competition is named “Small Hospital-Big Idea,” which was organized in the USA in the year 2011. Due to such a year gap, the research becomes more multi-dimensional, with significant differences in the competition space programs. At the same time, there have been some improvements socially, general health conditions due to the changes in welfare and communication conditions, etc., hospital organization, medical practices, pharmaceutical manufacturing, medical devices, and medical equipment. All of such factors have changed the space standards that affect the hospital organization in the long year gap. Based on such developments, this study aims to identify the differences between hospital competitions and space programs under the existing conditions through the performance of comparison
The design and construction of healthcare facilities are some of the significant foundations for the survival and healthy living of a happy society. In terms of the sustainable quality aspect in healthcare facilities, the structural safety and functional efficiency were primarily analyzed. In the further development, it turned into the healing healthcare centers together with the inclusion of aesthetic and cultural values as well as psychological and physical needs of individuals. With such developments, the concept of psychosocially supporting design has come into prominence through improving as a connection to nature, social support enhancement, stimulating design features, complexity, and coherence factors. Our article analyses the subject based on the indoor space planning elements for user’s psychological positive experience upon defining the factors with their spatial characteristics in consideration with the study regarding a conceptual model of the supportive healing environment. A hospital project, which is in the pre-design phase and still under development in the Near East University, was analyzed as the case study under this study.
In this article, the relationship between the ecological cycle and life, the built environment and life, the effects of the built environment on the public health are examined with the literature research technique and information about the interaction between ecology, built environment, skyscrapers and public health in various publications is presented. İstanbul was selected as a sample working area. The aim is to emphasize the relationship between high structures and the human health of these structures. The weakness of the study is that it does not investigate its effects by making field measurements. The strong direction of the study is that the effects of high buildings increasing day by day today are based on the literature studies of the effects on human health.
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