TY  - CONF
TI  - Analyzing User Costs in a Hospital: Methodological Implication of Space Syntax to Support Whole-Life Target Value Design
AU  - Kim, Youngchul
AU  - Lee, Hyun Woo
AD  - Ph. D. Candidate in Architecture, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, 2000 Bonisteel Boulevard, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2069, Phone +1 734/272-5905, FAX 734/763-2322, zeroiron@umich.edu
AD  - Graduate Student Researcher, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, University of California, Berkeley, Phone +1 510/715-0175, hyunwoo@berkeley.edu
ED  - Walsh, Kenneth
ED  - Alves, Thais
PY  - 2010
DA  - 2010/07/14
T2  - 18th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
C3  - 18th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
CY  - Haifa, Israel
SP  - 93
EP  - 102
AB  - Determining user costs in healthcare facilities is an emerging issue. Users – patients, staff, nurses and physicians – experience and move about corridors, hallways and rooms of a hospital, and the spatial configuration has a significant correlation to users’ experience in the facility. This paper investigates methodological implication of Space Syntax to Whole-life Target Value Design (TVD) by investigating user costs in the design of healthcare facilities. Investigating design alternatives using Space Syntax allows an effective user cost analysis to support Whole-life TVD. Three hypothetical hospital ward design alternatives are evaluated: deep-plan type, shallow-plan type and courtyard-plan type. Space Syntax assures valid results of spatial analysis in relation to users’ movement in the built environment. This approach also allows designers to visually compare design alternatives relating to space planning during set-based design. This spatial analysis helps reduce user costs by enhancing user productivity and reducing security dead spots – areas that lack visual supervision. Results of spatial configuration analysis are used to determine the best value design among the three alternatives with regards to the user costs. This paper also demonstrates how designers can benefit from Space Syntax as an effective visual representation tool for set-based design.
KW  - Hospital
KW  - user cost
KW  - Whole-life Target Value Design
KW  - Space Syntax
KW  - set-based design
L1  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/705/pdf
UR  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/705
DB  - IGLC.net
LA  - English
N1  - Export date: 04 October 2026
ER  -