| 要約: | This study touches on passive design elements used at the preparatory design stage of public hospital in Malaysia. Passive design is an aspect of sustainable architecture that needs to be understood and adopted in an environmentally sensitive architectural design. The most common problem is that the designers do not have proper guidelines for passive design to help them in designing a public hospital. Currently there is no comprehensive guidelines on passive design or sustainable architecture that may help designers. This consequently affects the increase of energy usage in hospitals. The intent of this study is to furnish evidence that the initial process of systematic design and guidance is essential in planning for a sustainable public hospital environment. In this study, the researcher uses a mixed method to obtain outcome for guideline. Through this method, a combination of qualitative and quantitative metadata to foster effective interventions to improve the quality of environmental friendly hospital design. The conclusions obtained from this study are to assist in the process of more efficient public hospital design. In addition to making these passive design guidelines as helpful in providing explanations and working to ensure that the guideline produced has credibility and meet the criteria. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
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