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Planning Module Applications: Design Configurations
3. Horizontal Hospital
The horizontal hospital demands a close coordination of floor-to-floor
heights. Because of this contiguity, the higher ceiling required in many
support functions may have to be carried over into the bed care area.
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Design Complexity
From an analysis of the assembly characteristics of the relevant building
subsystems and planning modules, a consistent pattern emerged which
has been used as a means of classifying subsystems and understanding
their implications on design configurations.
Plan configurations fall into two broad categories called simple and
compound assemblies of service modules. (See Figure 250-1.)
1. Simple Assemblies
Simple assemblies result when the respective disciplines of a
unidirectional structural bay and an exterior service bay location are
maintained throughout any given configuration.
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