Saluto-genetic approach in hospice design: Evaluation of medical staff

One of the significant aspects of the architecture field is to encounter human needs in an efficient manner. For a successful design, user satisfaction is inevitable. Especially, designing for sensitive user groups like older people, people with impairments or people with some diseases etc. requires high attention and high effort. It is crucial to ensure high satisfaction rate among these groups related with the design. One of these specific places that should be considered with special care in terms of design is; hospices. Hospices consists of three main user groups; patients, medical staff and administrative staff. There are many empirical studies related with patients' case in terms of design. However, medical staffs' case is not considered in many studies. Medical staff are also significant users group for hospices since they spend a lot of time in hospices and they have an important impact on patient's satisfaction. Therefore, the hospice design should provide an adequate environment for the medical staff to ease their daily tasks and to facilitate the working environment. So, a person-environment fit in hospice design from the medical staffs' point of view is a crucial issue. This thesis suggests Saluto-genetic Approach in hospice design to increase satisfaction rates of medical staff of hospices. Detecting Saluto-genetic architectural features is a significant aspect for this thesis. Moreover, this thesis uses Importance Performance Analysis (IPA) to test the effect of Saluto-genetic. Approach on medical staff of hospices and as a result, this thesis aims to guide hospice design with its findings.