Accessibility, Orientation and Scenery as Natural and Physical Environmental Factors in Hospital Design Case of Konya Hospitals

The positive effects of daylight on the healing processes of patients staying in intensive care units or, sickrooms of the hospitals are well-known. Therefore, the effects of garden/courtyard arrangement of, hospitals have been researched in terms of healing and patients’ user satisfaction. The significance of, directions and signs for hospital access has been determined. This paper adds, , i, the significance of, landscape planning and parking lot-building relation when access concept is dealt in terms of pedestrian, and vehicle., ii, The significance of the relation of building-entrance and environment, outdoor-indoor, space size., iii, The necessity for determination of space size, allocated for hospitals in city centers in terms, of not only closed-area need but also parking lot and green area design required for environmental, planning., iv, The necessity of urban texture character in site selection of hospitals and the fact that public, green area arrangements are required in environment. And the probe of the quality of urban texture, already available and to be existed, in environment and field size, especially parking and landscape, in, site selection of hospitals for city construction plan has to be performed by local administrations or, residential areas where pedestrian and vehicles are intense in the day, must not be preferred. Concluding, the urban texture/view must be taken into consideration in architectural design, and the hospitals must be, noticeable in the city.,

Keywords: hospital, accessibility, orientation, scenery, natural environmental factors, physical, environmental factors