A method developing architectural design recommendation upon user satisfaction research: Case study of children's unit of KTÜ Farabi Hospital, Trabzon-Tr

Abstract

Children, naturally, must be in a creative and special place in their surroundings. In the field of health, many factors must be considered for architectural design, unlike adults. In this study, at first, basic design principles for the children's healthcare building design gathered. Then those basic design principles were considered with Karadeniz Technical University's Farabi Hospital in Trabzon-Turkey as a case study. This hospital is investigated briefly within the context of the World Healthcare buildings standards. After the general location and plan analysis of the Farabi Hospital, the children's unit (outpatient and inpatient units) were examined in detail. Field analysis, observation technique, and user satisfaction surveys methods were used. At the end of the structured analyses, some defects were determined. These defects were the health structures in the first functions were not overlapping with the basic design principles and/or in some cases determined in some cases: the correct method of dimensioning and reinforcement of some rooms and the patient safety, morale improvement skills. As a result, a new method developıng architectural design has been recommended, throughout the unit analysis and the satisfaction survey. Furthermore, it should be noted that there are many different solutions to these architectural design problems, which in this study one of them.