Open AccessRole of daylight in local hospitals design
Author(s) -
Hasan Shakir M. Alboadam,
Younas Mahmoud Mohamed
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/779/1/012042
Subject(s) - daylight , sustainability , medical emergency , medicine , operations management , architectural engineering , optometry , engineering , optics , ecology , physics , biology
Environmental sustainability is one of the most important, and one of the sustainability criteria is Daylight that trying to provide it in hospital spaces and which improve the patients status(healing of patients), by looking at studies concerned with the role of Daylight in the design of local hospitals, we find a knowledge gap emerged regarding the lack of studies that dealt with the design of Daylight in local hospitals and its effect on the healing of patients (a special problem for the research). The goal of the research is to determine the role of Daylight in hospital design. Research hypothesis: the Daylight affect the healing of patients at local hospitals by achieving comfortable zone at patient room and this affected by the orientation of these rooms and relationships between the location of head of patient and the TV wall at these rooms, in the practical side we select two hospitals and prepare the sites measurements by using LUX meter instrument, In this aspect, the intensity of the light and the indicators associated with it were measured, as a group of patients rooms were elected on multiple facades of the hospital building, as these rooms were numbered and their location in the plans based on the numbering system in the hospitals and then the details of the room were determined dimensions, the window’s location and its relationship with the bed, the location of the patient’s head in the room and the location of the TV wall (the front facing the patient’s head), as a mock net was drawn 95 cm from the ground level and the net was 50 cm away from the walls and the distance between One point and another is approximately 85 cm in both directions, and a mock square grid (2 meters * 2 meters) was drawn on the wall opposite the patient’s head (the TV wall) and the distance between one point and another is 50 cm. If the hospitals’ engineering plans were obtained, then the rooms for the patients’ rest were elected in the wards, provided that every two rooms were facing each other in the same wing after the sun’s movement was determined. The direction of those rooms was determined. The research reached a number of conclusions on designing natural lighting in local hospitals and determining within measures specific to the Iraqi environment. The most important conclusions of the eastern and southern directive were the orientation of the eastern and southern patient rooms to better rooms for patients, which in turn helps to heal patients.