http://thefuturewell.com We design services and products that create health and happiness. Tue, 27 Mar 2012 02:47:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://thefuturewell.com We design services and products that create health and happiness. Tue, 27 Mar 2012 02:47:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://thefuturewell.com We design services and products that create health and happiness. Tue, 27 Mar 2012 02:47:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://thefuturewell.com/2010/02/19/breaking-health-conventions-to-create-comfort/ http://thefuturewell.com/2010/02/19/breaking-health-conventions-to-create-comfort/#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:11 +0000 Jay Parkinson http://thefuturewell.com/?p=572 "As you walk through the front door of Bloorview Kids Rehab, the largest children’s rehabilitation hospital in Can ada, the first things you see are a tiled wall and a comfy-looking couch. It’s not exactly a grand entrance, but as you step into the tight lobby area you might notice that those tiles are limestone, that there’s an art installation set into the wall, and that a reception desk is built of lustrous cherry. In other words, it has a small scale and subtle luxury—not qualities you expect to find in a 358,000-square-foot health-care facility. Which is exactly the point, says architect Terry Montgom ery, of Toronto firm Montgomery Sisam. “Most hospitals have a big atrium, and that gives the wrong impression,” he says. “I think when you enter a place like a hospital, you want to have a feeling you’re not going to get immersed in it.” Especially if you’re a child recovering from a traumatic in -jury and coming in for years of rehab, a typical story among the patients at Bloorview. Its new building, completed last year by Montgomery Sisam and Stantec Archi tecture in a joint venture, creates a comfortable and child-friendly environment by breaking a few conventions of health-care design." via Metropolis ]]> http://thefuturewell.com/2010/02/19/breaking-health-conventions-to-create-comfort/feed/ 0