title: Guidelines and health care buildings.
abstract: What are guidelines, why we need them, by whom they are introduced? These are some of the questions that are intended to be approached in this presentation. Apart from the services they offered to the design process and the built environment especially in the health care facilities the main discussion today is if guidelines, norms, standards are necessary tools in healthcare design or they act as barrier in the creation of a proper healing environment.
authors: School of Architecture, Faculty of Technology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. faniva@arch.auth.gr
authors: Fani
authors: F
authors: Vavili
mesh_terms: D001108:Architecture / Q000592:standards; D005160:Facility Design and Construction / Q000592:standards*; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006272:Health Facility Environment; D006801:Humans; D007374:Interior Design and Furnishings / Q000592:standards