[Article] Chung-Ang University Hospital breaks away the common idea but keeps life… Utopia patients dream of_Seoul Daily

Chung-Ang University Hospital established under the motto of ‘Safety First’ = Opened in March last year, Chung-Ang University Hospital is one of the recently built large hospitals. It was after ‘safe hospital’ became a big talking point, since we experienced the fire accident at Jangseong Nursing Hospital in 2014, which resulted in numerous victims, the MERS outbreak in 2015, and the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019. Gansam’s Healthcare Design Team, who was in charge of the design, pointed out that Chung-Ang University Hospital is distinguished from others because it started its construction after the social disaster.

Taesang Lee, Director of Gansam’s Healthcare Design Team said, “Hospital is a sensitive architecture reacting to social changes, so many changes are made through remodeling even after a building is completed” and added, “The advantage of Chung-Ang University Hospital is that it was designed with safety as a top priority, for instance, preventing infectious diseases, because it was built right after the disaster.”...Read more

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Seoul Daily [Architecture & City] Chung-Ang University Hospital breaks away the common idea but keeps life… Utopia patients dream of.

Seoul Daily [Architecture & City] “The most important thing in hospital design is that the architect stands on the patient's side.”