Health Care
The purpose of the AIA/Orlando Healthcare Committee is to support the AIA Academy of Architecture for Health on a local level.
The Academy of Architecture for Health improves the quality of healthcare through design by developing, documenting, and disseminating knowledge; educating healthcare architects and other related constituencies; advancing the practice of healthcare architecture; improving the design of healthcare environments; affiliating and advocating with others that share our vision and promoting research. (http://www.aia.org/aah_default)
Mission Statement:
Our mission is to improve the quality of the healthcare environment by promoting, through our members, excellence in healthcare architecture.
Our goals are to:
- Identify resources to advance, maintain and disseminate knowledge, and to promote research.
- Create links between all those involved in the building delivery system to achieve quality healthcare architecture.
We believe that:
- The quality of the built environment plays a major role in the quality of healthcare.
- We, as architects and allied professionals, are essential to the development of quality healthcare environments.
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Strategic Mission Sponsors
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Links to Resources
Healthcare Home
Resources
Healthcare History
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special events
2010 DESIGN COMPETITION
Health Care Clinic for the Homeless
sponsored by:
Orlando Academy of Architecture for Health
Florida Foundation for Architecture
The Competition is aimed at fostering research associated with
the design of clinical facilities to serve the medical, dental, and
behavioral needs of homeless populations in communities
throughout the state of Florida.
Solutions are being sought that will address the design
parameters of:
- sustainability
- flexibility
- functionality
- the creation of a healing environment for patients & staff
within the context of Florida communities.
View Healthcare Design Primer (PDF) |
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