THESIS PAPER: Designing the Interior of Unihealth Tagaytay Hospital and Medical Center
THESIS PAPER: Designing the Interior of Unihealth Tagaytay Hospital and Medical Center from Rachel Roxanne Princess...
THESIS PAPER: Designing the Interior of Unihealth Tagaytay Hospital and Medical Center

In this design project, green healing approach of biophilic design will serve as the core solution in achieving the main objective of this study which is creating an ideal healing environment. Biophilic design and its healing components will open the possible solution in utilizing and integrating them as a healthcare solution. Generally, the residential-like multifunctional interior component unites with the aesthetic elements on creating the physical aspect of the healing environment. The hospital will center its care for the patients, their family and staffs as well, so a healing atmosphere will be attainable and also to increase the patients capability to recover faster from their ailment; Creating a comfortable setting by integrating home-like design elements, that will result in creating a stress-free environment and somehow giving patients an experience that may offer the feeling of comfort in their series of treatment as they would just feel at home.

Proposed interior design of the lobby lounge of the hospital containing a contemporary hotel-like interior that offers a stress-free comfortable environment. The area is designed to link nature inside a built environment through the concept of seeing, touching, hearing and smelling nature. It caters a healthy inviting and warm environment with the use of white, brown and green colors that is considered to help in healing. The atmosphere of this interior aims to present a homey hotel lobby ambiance. The design gives a fresh and healthy environemnt with good layout that embraces the very core of a hospital. It has the appeal of a stress-free environment that is efficient, with good quality and aesthetics which will draw in patients, visitors and employees.
Interior Design of a Doctor's office, specializing in Physical Therapy, contains a contemporary-residential interior look that offers a stress-free environment that embraces the importance of recovery and treatment. The area is designed with an environmental design impact on nature and nature's benefits in a person's health and well-being, aiming to acheive an ideal healing environment. By applying Biophilic Design in the area, it will foster the beneficial effects of water in psychological and physical aspect of well-being. Water is described as the reserved component of our natural surroundings; and its psychological and physical represented a calm, peaceful, tranquil and fresh element of nature. The designs incorporates symbolic representation of water in the interior, that is sought to express a relaxing and healing ambiance with the use of curve lines in the design. The atmosphere caters a comfortable set-up between the patient and the doctor.
Proposed interior design of a nurse station of the hospital contains a contemporary-hotel like interior that offers a stress-free environment with the combination of nature-like ambiance, as the theory of biophilic design promotes a healing environment. The area is designed with an environmental design impact on nature and nature's benefits in a person's health. Since Tagaytay city is famous for pineapple plantation, designing the area with a biophilic design principle which is "Sense of Place", giving the patients, visitors and staff a healing of being in the outdoors of Tagaytay. The pineapple fruit is recognized as a tradition expression of "welcome" that signifies a feeling of warmth, hospitality and welcoming ambiance. The symbolic representation of pineapple design and its color yellow in the interior provides a comfortable set-up between patients, visitors, doctors and nurses.
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THESIS PAPER: Designing the Interior of Unihealth Tagaytay Hospital and Medical Center

In this design project, green healing approach of biophilic design will serve as the core solution in achieving the main objective of this study which is creating an ideal healing environment. Biophilic design and its healing components will open the possible solution in utilizing and integrating them as a healthcare solution. Generally, the residential-like multifunctional interior component unites with the aesthetic elements on creating the physical aspect of the healing environment. The hospital will center its care for the patients, their family and staffs as well, so a healing atmosphere will be attainable and also to increase the patients capability to recover faster from their ailment; Creating a comfortable setting by integrating home-like design elements, that will result in creating a stress-free environment and somehow giving patients an experience that may offer the feeling of comfort in their series of treatment as they would just feel at home.

Rachel Roxanne Princess...
Parañaque City, Philippines