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Abstract
In healthcare buildings field, the current researches focus on the influence of healthcare advanced technologies on hospital design. In addition, more computational implementations are being developed to measure the effect of inserting advanced technologies (e.g. wayfinding, Electronic medical recorders, etc.) on healthcare building design. Robotic surgery technology is one of the most influential technologies on new hospitals’ design. Hence, there is a need for developing a framework that responds to the coordination of design phases for Robotic Surgery Wards (RSWs). This thesis aims to develop a design framework that can generate a vast number of RSW alternatives at digital hospitals for specific design cases. The outcome of this thesis is providing healthcare building designers with a design framework and a computational implementation to generate RSW alternatives computationally. These alternatives are generated based on specific shape and cost levels, this includes the generated alternative of RSW, the architectural considerations of RSW rooms and the total cost.
The thesis starts with reviewing the research areas that contributed to the thesis topic. A background about digital requirements hospital characteristics is presented, and a literature review is conducted on studies and computational implementation with a focus on how RSW can be designed. The thesis core work starts with outlining the architectural considerations of RSW rooms with studying them economically. Then, the shape alternatives of RSWs and the appropriate corridor patterns are determined. Shape Grammar (SG) concept is utilized for zones’ and operating rooms’ distribution to implement the alternatives computationally. These components are used in conducting the proposed framework and the computational implementation for generating RSW alternatives.
To achieve the aims and contribution of this thesis, a design framework with the related computational implementation was developed for generating functional alternatives for RSW. The framework starts with determining the shape alternatives and the appropriate corridor patterns selected from developed pools; these shapes and corridors were analyzed to match the required architectural and economic considerations. Then, the framework utilizes the SG concept to implement the zones’ distribution through two phases: a) the phase of generating zones’ distribution cases phase that occurs inside the RSWs, and b) the phase of generating operating rooms groups’ distribution path that occurs inside operating rooms’ zone. These items are structured in a computational flowchart that generates functional alternatives for RSW which includes the required inputs, developed pools of shape alternatives, corridor patterns and SG rules, in addition to presenting the outputs. The implementation is established through a developed Hierarchy of Inputs-process-outputs (HIPO) and detailed computational flowchart, which has been coded using MATLAB and presented through a friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI) developed to be easy-to-use by designers/users for generating RSW
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alternatives the aim of the thesis. The implementation can generate more than 3500 design solutions for RSW, so the implementation is demonstrated through the analyses of 96 design solutions, which present different sides of the implementation. For validating the developed implementation, a numerical check of the outputs is conducted. Then, the appropriateness of the developed framework and implementation has been discussed through a questionnaire distributed to healthcare building design experts; asking them to assess the alternatives. Accordingly, the experts’ inputs can be compared and analyzed with the outcomes of the developed implementation for validating the implementation. The thesis concludes with main results, conclusion, contribution and future works.