The layout of the health clinic have been one of the main aspect that we have worked on this week. How to get all the different components and areas to the right place, by placing them right when it comes to security and safety for both patients and staff. After many sketches, scaled drawings and different types of layouts we finally were able to find a layout that will function well. Both with our design and for the purpose of being a health clinic. 
One of the steps with making the layout was to separate the staff and the patients in the safest way possible. By creating risk zones and non risk zones. Between these zones, a person have to go trough a decontamination area, to make sure that the no risk zone, keeps being virus free. This will both happen to the staff when leaving a risk zone, but also if a patient lives through the virus and are able to go to convalescence. Convalescence is viewed as a no risk zone and the patients need to be decontaminated before entering this area. 
As well as a decontamination area between no risk and risk area, there needs to be a foot bath in the layout. A foot bath is a place where the feet and hands are washed to prevent spreading the virus. since Ebola is spread through body fluids this is one of the most efficient and simplest ways to prevent spreading the virus. We wanted to place the foot bath in a way that a person would have to go through a the foot bath no matter where the person is going inside the risk zone. And also, since a foot bath is a very expensive component to have in a health clinic, we wanted to have as few numbers of them as possible. After many different layout, we finally found a layout that makes sure a person have to go through a foot bath and also only having one foot bath for the whole health clinic.
To find out how big the different spaces needed to be and which types of rooms were needed I was researching books and the internet, to be able to make the layout as accurate as possible.
– Ine Ringlund