Future Hospital Building Design Strategies Post COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic is regarded as a pivotal point in human history. The goal of architecture is to solve problems like the novel COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, new future methods to designing buildings and create environments emerged, with hospital design and infection control being prioritized as a key pillar of health care. Hospitals, like battlegrounds, require a future design that prioritizes speed and safety, not just during treatment but also during testing and follow-up care. The research aims to create an appealing, humane, and optimal therapeutic environment for dealing with the pandemic in order to raise the degree of safety that aids in the prevention of infection and illness spread. The research employs a deductive methodology, with the goal of discussing the evolution of the design of the future hospital environment through a set of design strategies based on social distancing policy, adaptability, flexibility, and engineering control of new preventive measures to deal with the current and potential future pandemics, while also considering humanistic aspects. The questionnaire was conducted to test the goals and strategies of this research through a group of specialists in order to reach the graphic results of the importance of these strategies in helping to design the hospital of the future, paving the way for future studies and research to develop building design and create environments of future hospitals.