DESIGN A MEDICAL OFFICE SPACE series: Creating a Program

Usually what you will have  is the outline of an empty medical office or floor plan. It is just outside walls and is called a ‘shell’. Now we will develop a  program or a list of requirements we need in the space. Here is a sample program:

 THE PROGRAM

1. Four Exam Rooms

2. Two Restrooms

3. One Break Room

4. One Doctor’s Office

5. One Billing Office

6. One Manager’s Office

7. One Reception Desk

8. One Waiting Room 

9. One Conference Room

10. Storage Room 

11. Keep as many windows as possible in the hallway. 

Remember list everything that you want in a program for the architect. They then can try to get as much as they can incorporated into the medical office lay out plan. You can list 100 rooms in the program. Then the architect can come and let  you know that it is impossible to get 100 rooms in there so you can get 8 rooms only.

Also the program may change later in the design phase as we will demonstrate. For example you may want to increase the number of exam rooms to five instead of four in the above program. But you may need to delete one restroom to make space for it.