Abstract
The paper is devoted to important issues of perspective modern directions and methods of organizing public space in hospitals. The innovative world design experience of the newest hospitals is considered, in which places of communication for people were organized in a non-traditional way and received a more functionally intense form. The following latest architectural and planning techniques have been identified and systematized: “pedestrian street”, “hospital-park”, “courtyard”, intuitive orientation and “open room”. The experience of the considered ways of organizing spaces for communication, leisure and recreation for visitors, patients and staff of medical complexes in the design of modern healthcare facilities and reconstruction of existing hospitals will significantly increase the emotional and physical comfort of medical buildings visitors, promote design customization and development of healing potential of the architectural environment and consequently improve the quality and efficiency of treatment delivery.