A Study on the Changing Process in Hospital Architecture - A Case Study on the J University Hospital -

병원건축의 변화과정에 관한 연구 - J대학부속병원을 대상으로 -

  • Received : 2008.09.26
  • Accepted : 2008.11.11
  • Published : 2008.11.30

Abstract

Domestic hospital architectures were developed with the nation's industrialization after 1960s. Particularly, with the rapidly growing healthcare demands according to The National Health Insurance Plan which was introduced in 1977 and expanded to entire nation in 1989, the number of healthcare facility is also increasing according to the expansion of the existing facilities and construction of new buildings. Now, twenty to thirty years were past since that growing period of healthcare architecture. Many hospitals are facing on the phase of restructuring and modernization for their resources. J university hospital is a representative case of hospital development which the growth of facility was stopped by insufficient site area. This study, analysing its past statistics and drawing data of that hospital, presents the characteristics of the changes and basic data of the master planning for the future hospital development.

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