Design of outdoor recreational hospital spaces: creating architectural objects in the natural environment

Abstract

The purpose of the paper is to identify the features of the design of outdoor recreational hospital spaces in the framework of the design of modern healthcare facilities. The architectural practices of design reveal the need to incorporate outdoor recreational spaces in the architectural designs for modern medical facilities, A detailed analysis of such open spaces is conducted on the examples of design projects for the Shenzhen Children’s Hospital (China), Seijo Kinoshita Hospital (Japan), Narita Rehabilitation Hospital (Japan), Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (China), and the hospital complex of the Ng Teng Fong General Hospital and the Jurong Community Hospital (NTFGH, Singapore). The authors argue for the need to devote more effort to the analysis of open recreational hospital spaces because the latter are both a component of the design of modern medical institutions and an important element of the concept of “healthcare architecture”.