Rooms of the Future
How might we simulate the future technologies needed before the walls go up?
Project VIRTUAL
Client: Yale New Haven Health System
Project Type: Spatial Design & Technology Planning (2021-2022)
Overview: Imagining new facilities & adopting new ways-of-working are difficult when limited to expensive and operationally challenging physical mock-ups, traditional architectural drawings, and existing legacy approaches. The goal was to develop an immersive, virtual, asynchronous tool that can bring together space, technology and workflow considerations to enhance collaboration in planning future care experiences across a range of settings.
Role: Led the relationship. Directed the concept and development of the platform, partnering with Yale New Haven Health System and their architectural teams to shape the tool and the care standards it produced.
Overview of virtual tool and key features
Using virtual tools to depict future care experiences
I drove the development of a new tech-forward approach to the design & planning of healthcare experiences across care settings. From the home to the hospital, future technology needs and workflows are depicted using an immersive web-based platform. Working with Yale New Haven Health System and their architectural partners, the tool was developed to illustrate and explore desired patient, visitor, and staff experiences across a range of settings and workflows. The approach helped gain consensus on underlying IT platforms and technologies to plan for in forthcoming building projects, and establish care signature standards for the system at large.
