Buildings are making people sicker Dr.

Paul Farmer said, as it happen in a hospital

in South Africa, patients that came with, lets say, sprains, to wait in the
unventilated hallway, walked out with a multidrug-resistant strand of tubercolusis.
Just because of the design that didnt though of an infection control, people had
died.
The architects must be present to resolve this issue, to build a design that allow
peoples to heal. Like, if hallways making patients sicker, why not design a hospital
that flips the hallways on the outside, and makes people walk in the exterior? If
mechanical system rarely work, why not design a hospital that could breathe
through natural ventilation, meanwhile reduce its environmental footprint? Also
evidence show that a simple view of nature can radically improve health outcomes,
so why not design a hospital where every patient had a window with a view? Simple,
this certain design can make a hospital that heals.
The results of this site-spesific design already show the correctness. For example, in
Haiti, where the epidemic of cholera invade, a simple strategy, a design that could
clean contaminated medical waste before it enters the water table, can save lives.
Or in Poughkeepsie, an old industrial infrastructure town, with arts and culture and
design to revitalize this city and other Rust Belt cities across their nation, turn them
into centers for innovation and growth. From here also we have learned that
architecture can be a transformative engine for change.
So, buildings are not simply expressive sculptures, but it has so much deeper
relationship between architecture and ourselves.