ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the relationships between inside-out, architectural, and landscape spaces and people-nature transitions in large hospital environments through the lenses of patient-centered care and evidence-based design. One example is the shift in design trend from the centralized workstation for nurses to the decentralized nurse station and to the current hybrid model, which reflects the broadly inclusive, user-centered design concept in the current healthcare design. Experimental results indicated that large windows with quality views, abundant daylight, and a high level of transparency to gardens and nature calm people's stress, enhance their mood, and improve their spatial cognition and wayfinding; those transparency features are preferred, to a substantial extent, by people regarding the visual esthetics, attractiveness, and atmospheric pleasantness in large hospital environments. A hospital facility function without competent medical staff, nurses, and all sorts of supporting members. The general public and patient populations frequently have contrasting esthetic preferences from designers.
