• Davide Schaumann, Nirit Putievsky Pilosof, Kartikeya Date, and Yehuda E Kalay.
• Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
• Ann. Ist. Super. Sanita. 2016 Jan 1; 52 (1): 24-32.

IntroductionCurrent tools and methods in architectural design do not allow predicting and evaluating how people will use designed environments before their actual realization.ObjectiveTo investigate how computational simulation can help in evaluating design proposals as far as their use by people is concerned.MethodsSimulation of a medicine distribution procedure in a general hospital facility, while accounting for serendipitous social interactions made possible by the presence of different users in the same space, at the same time.DiscussionThe simulation shows how use patterns are influenced by the social and physical context in which actors are situated, and demonstrates the significance of the proposed method of evaluating hospital designs before construction. The system allows simulating use patterns with different degrees of complexity, and enables architects to ask new types of questions related to the interactions between people and physical settings.

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