Category Archives: Nightingale

On day three we met up with the students from Hazelwick School again, caught up and shared what each of us had been doing the day before. The day mostly consisted of going over and over our floor plans after the lecturers kept finding faults. Eventually we found an idea which worked and got the seal of approval from Dr Poorang Piroozfar.

We also came up with a final design for the external structure which was focused on the inflatable tent structure we had thought up the day before.

The picture above shows an attempt on modelling an inflatable structure which sort of worked but ended up being too time consuming especially if we used the idea for the final 1:50 scale model.

Instead we have decided to use balsa wood, bubble wrap and plastic to replicate the finish of the building as shown i the pictures below showing the model in the early stages.

The marriage of stylish design and treatment of the sick is never without challenge.

Team nightingale have spent day 2 of design week in a whirlwind of concepts, prototypes, inspiration, space planning and compromise.

In the middle of difficulty however, lies opportunity.

The result of teamwork and collaboration of ideas results in a well rounded response to the challenges set.

A stunning, lightweight external facility structure has been decided upon, with a large nod to simple assembly and deployment.

Inside, the patients will be distracted from their unfortunate circumstance as they marvel at the intelligent and functional layout, their experience made more comfortable through well thought out space planning and pathways.

Facility patients will leave not only healthy, but energised by their whole experience. As Florence Nightingale changed the face of nursing, so to have Team Nightingale showed their potential for facelifting the business that is field hospital care.

Modelling ideas to see what works. This is a idea taken from circus tents using a centre mast with cabling. A circus tent can be put up within a day using little or no machinery making it a good concept for a temporary structure.