In the latest issue of Healthcare Design (November 2015), check out this piece on the progress of our thermal comfort study. We’re researching optimal temperatures for healthcare spaces.
Thermal comfort in a healthcare environment is particularly challenging. The ideal comfort zone of patient rooms, doctors’ spaces, waiting areas and highly controlled environments do not overlap. This creates a perpetual challenge in the operation of your hospital to best meet the thermal comfort needs of all key occupants. Regardless of your geographic location or climate, finding the “sweet spot” is a challenge.
The study is underway and we’ll be sharing results in 2016.
The 2025 OpenLAB Boston studio work will be exhibited at Virginia Tech Monday, March 2nd through Wednesday, March 4th.
Please join us for the following events on Monday, March 2nd:
11:00am - Lecture with Parke MacDowell
1:00pm Lobby talk with Kevin Sullivan
This year’s studio identifies seven sites along the frayed edges of Boston’s Greenway. The Greenway is a one-mile-long linear park running through the heart of the city, reconnecting downtown Boston with its waterfront. Many of the parcels along its edges remain undeveloped and present mute, blank facades to the public realm. Addressing and repairing these edges through acts of infilling, layering, grafting, framing, and placemaking is the core focus of the studio—SUTURE.