Research On The New Concepts For Contemporary Out-patient Department Design

Out-patient departments are important parts in hospitals.The design of out-patient department will play the key role forthe whole hospital and we must research into this field deeplyand extensively. With the development of our society, requirements frompeople toward medical care and medical environment have beenchanging.Furthermore, medical technology and equipments havebeen developed greatly.The social role and management ofhospitals also has been changed, the design concepts andmethods of hospitals then must be updated to face those changes.Architects are facing great challenge as well as great chances. This paper aims to research into those factors whichinfluences the development of medicine, such as socialconditions, technical conditions, social requirements and soon. On this base this paper discusses new concepts and trendsfor contemporary out-patient department design. Together withthe analysis of real projects, this paper sums up these conceptsand trends as direction for later practices in hospital design.