Chapter 9

Cultural Context for Lean-Led Design

Would this [immigrant health screening center] be a place of bureaucracy and fear of illness, where a chance of deportation hung in the air? Or could it be a totally different kind of place? We decided on a simpler message: Welcome to Abu Dhabi.

—Lou AstornioArchitect

Case studies: Nanaimo Regional and Fort St. John Hospitals, British Columbia, Canada; the Abu Dhabi Health Service (SEHA) foreign worker Disease Prevention and Screening Center (DPSC)

Introduction

The design of a health facility must ...

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