Hospital and Healthcare Design and Engineering Research Cluster focuses on the development of knowledge on healthcare environment and the implementation of knowledge to support evidence-based design practice. The research cluster conducts a number of studies that could support the evidence-based design of hospitals and other healthcare facilities, through multidisciplinary and contextual approach. The research cluster also intends to fill in the gap of knowledge in healthcare design practice, by providing research-based guidelines and recommendations that could assist the design of healthcare facilities.
The works of the research cluster span from exploratory research to understand various phenomena relevant to healthcare spatial design; empirical research to provide evidence that could support design process; evaluation studies to assess the performance of healthcare environment design; to the development of prototypes and models of architecture and interior elements that could be implemented for healthcare facilities. The research areas of the cluster reflect the multidisciplinary expertise of its members, including architecture, interior, environment-behavior studies, medical studies, engineering, and computational design. The research cluster works closely with the Universitas Indonesia Teaching Hospital Project, to strengthen the relationship between research and design practice.
