FORMLINER. DESIGN CONCEIVED FROM A HUMAN PERSPECTIVE

Hospitals have to meet high standards of hygiene and efficiency – but there is more to recovery than just that, more than skilled staff and cleanliness. Architectural firms have recently started to focus on the effect that the buildings themselves have on patients and design with that in mind. “We call this supportive design”, Gemma Koppen and Tanja C. Vollmer explain in an interview with the international design magazine Formliner. In its first ONLINE issue, the magazine presents international new building projects that have been designed in this way: Arlesheim Clinic, Switzerland, ARGE metron – kopvol, Princess Máxima Centre for Paediatric Oncology, Netherlands, LIAG, Harladsplass Hospital, Norway, C.F. Möller