Design by Numbers

摘要

Many firms have already realized research's importance in wooing clients and securing projects. Here's how they've made research an integral part of their practices.Palomar medical center west, a $960 million state-of-the-art hospital in Escondido, Calif., will open in 2012 boasting a number of innovative healthcare design features, including patient-healing environments and daylit surgical areas that provide staff with views of trees and greenery in courtyards.Daylighting is unusual for surgical platforms, says Thomas Chessum, FAIA, a principal of Co Architects, the Los Angeles-based firm that designed the building, but it was used in trie project after a joint research team of hospital and design staff analyzed, proposed, and endorsed the idea.