97 GROHE Magazine The Rush Hospital s lobby atria bring in light nature and create landmarks for wayfinding supporting positive and relaxing distractions planners transportation specialists wa ter and resiliency experts among others A research question might be What s the world of autonomous vehicles going to do to our cities and our locations G What role does water play in this idea of creating an environment EE We re working with Berkley who explore how humidity impacts our thermal com fort and well being Research suggests that temperature change may have a greater impact on some mental health conditions than the length of day and amount of light And then of course there s the beautiful calming effect of water that almost everyone recognizes and what the eye is tuned to relax it s all measurable On a larger scale Perkins Will is part of the Rockefeller 100 Resilient Cities Cam paign and is developing new standards to build awareness of impact of water and how buildings and cities have to respond It s a very pertinent time to talk about it given the recent hurricanes G Perkins Will has designed all sorts of build ings from hospitals in Ghana to a museum in China What are the different challenges of designing for different geographies EE Culture climate and the local experience of design serve the desire for a global im pact So we work not to reproduce the same for all but to be responsive to these factors Designer Ralph Johnson created the Natural History Museum in Shanghai with a cellular structure on the exterior of the building This was modeled on the de sign of the Chinese wooden privacy screens and morphed into a biological pattern G How has virtual reality changed your work EE I m involved in using the first interactive VR immersive virtual caves where you can explore design interacting with up to ten people We measured brainwaves while people were in there developed eye tracking systems and came up with a means to model the building in real time while the designer and client were standing inside This affords huge leaps in design thinking in terms of how we put ourselves inside a building and I expect this domain to transform how we design We can model where the sun pours in where the ceilings are where the openings are the view how the light moves It will change how we use our hands body everything to create crea tive buildings Rush Hospital exemplifies many principles of research based design For exam ple the layout of the clinical units used full scale plans that clini cians could walk through to test different views P ho to p 9 7 H ed ri ch B le ss in g P ho to gr ap he rs
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