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Holistic Dwelling endeavors to explore different design methods to create a more conscientious approach to designing homes. The three approaches that are being utilized are environmental psychology, feng shui, and biophilic design. The study of these diverse methods gives a more extensive look at the concept of home, what has not previously been in...
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... Holistic Dwelling and Healthy Workplaces: The theoretical framework considers holistic dwelling and healthy workplaces, going beyond the residential setting. Studies like Largo-Wight et al. (2011) and Hudson (2013) offer valuable perspectives on designing spaces that enhance people's general well-being. This viewpoint guides the investigation of biophilic design in the study as a comprehensive strategy that addresses the wider facets of human health and happiness in urban residential settings, going beyond aesthetics. ...
This study aims to investigate how applying biophilic design principles to interior architecture—especially in urban residential contexts—can improve the user experience while accounting for the influence of different user profiles. It has been demonstrated that using natural components and patterns in constructed settings has a good influence on people's health and sense of connection to the natural world. The impact of numerous biophilic design elements on occupant well-being, productivity, and emotional connection to their living environments will be thoroughly examined. These include natural light, vegetation, water features and natural materials. University faculty and their families are the sole residents of Kayseri Nuh Naci Yazgan University Faculty Residences in Turkey a unique urban living community. Located at the corner of the university, this space offers individualized accommodation alternatives, creates a close-knit community and provides a distinctive living environment that meets faculty members' academic needs by guaranteeing easy access to educational resources. 54 residential units are participating in the study. Respondents are academic staff members that reside and work in the residences of Nuh Naci Yazgan University. The study centers on their housing experiences and they are its primary subjects. Both qualitative and quantitative data were gathered using a combination of in-depth observations, questionnaires and interviews in addition to random sampling. The study closes a crucial knowledge gap regarding the application of biophilic design in urban settings, given the current state of growing urbanization. This study is significant because it may help design more environmentally friendly and psychologically stimulating urban living environments. The results of this study can help architects, designers and urban planners create healthier and more user-centered urban places, which will ultimately improve the quality of life in urban settings, by examining how biophilic design affects user experiences. Using a case study methodology, the study was focused on NNYU Residences as a particular urban living environments as its study subjects. Observations, surveys and interviews was used to gather both qualitative and quantitative data to investigate users' opinions about the integration of biophilic design elements in their surroundings. This study has multiple main objectives. It seeks to comprehend how consumers interpret biophilic design elements, evaluate how the design affects inhabitants' well-being, investigate sustainability issues and offer useful advice for designers and architects. According to this study, biophilic design enhances sustainability and user satisfaction in urban residential environments. This has significant ramifications for urban planners and architects. Nonetheless, the case-study methodology and possibility for participant bias are two of the study's shortcomings. Also, because interior architecture is the study's primary focus, related bioinspired fields are not included. To learn more about these topics and how they contribute to biophilic design in interior products, future studies should investigate them.
... We believe that Chinese vernacular window has been developed based on Feng Shui theory (Ji and Chen 1988;Mak and Ng 2005), which is regarded as one type of environmental planning strategy for selecting building sites and planning interior layouts. In addition, it seems that Feng Shui and biophilic design have some similar concepts and patterns according to architectural environmental design (Hudson 2013). It would be interesting to investigate the impact of Chinese vernacular window on psychological human responses, and thus produce design implications for heritage conservations. ...
This study conducted a psychological experiment to test if there are differences of visual preference between 18 Chinese vernacular windows, and which biophilic factors can substantially affect the preference. The experiment recruited 95 Chinese adults to rate images of these windows on three biophilic qualities (perceived shape complexity, biomorphic form, fascination) and the visual preference. To summarize, the achieved results exposed some interesting findings. (1) Effects of window shapes on visual preference were significant, whereas geometric properties of these windows, such as the ratio of height-to-width and compactness, cannot deliver significant impact on the preference. (2) The visual preference for these windows with both urban and nature views was positively correlated with the three biophilic factors. (3) There was no association between perceived shape complexity and visual preference of windows without any views. (4) Apart from the rectangular window, the visual preference for these windows received no significant effects from the view.
... Biyofilik tasarımın uygulandığı ya da test edildiği birçok çalışma bulunmaktadır. Örneğin sürdürülebilir yapılarda (Leakas, 2008), konutlarda (Hudson, 2013), kafelerde (Çorakçı, 2016), üniversite binalarında (Mustafa ve Yaseen, 2019), ofislerde (Gray, 2018), hastane yapılarında (Akrami, 2017;Şenozan, 2018) yapılan çalışmalar biyofilik tasarımın mimarideki karşılığını çevre, yapı ve iç mekân düzeyinde sorgulamaktadırlar. ...
... Sağlık yapılarında doğanın kullanımı üzerine birçok çalışması olan Ulrich (2008) hastanelerde stresin büyük bir problem olduğunu ve bunu biyofilik tasarım anlayışı ile azaltmanın mümkün olabileceğini araştırmalarıyla göstermektedir. Bu görüşü desteleyen sağlık yapıları özelinde birçok çalışma da (Gullone, 2000;Ulrich ve diğ., 2008;Hudson, 2013;Hidalgo, 2014;Gillis ve Gatersleben, 2015;Akrami, 2017;Habibi ve Akrami, 2018) biyofilik tasarım anlayışı ile düzenlenen yapılı çevrenin insan psikolojisi üzerinde olumlu etkisi olduğunu, stresi azalttığını, zihinsel yorgunluğun iyileşmesine yardım ettiğini güçlü kanıtlar ile ortaya koymaktadır. ...
Historically, the built environment in Antarctica focused pragmatically on the protection of the occupants from the surrounding harsh natural environment. They weren’t winning any architectural prizes. This approach changed with the 21st century and the British Antarctic Survey’s call for submissions to design Halley VI. With the instigation of the architectural competition to design research stations, the process provides value towards aesthetics as well as bringing a new cognisance of life in Antarctica to a broader audience. The methodology for this research builds upon existing case study analysis, with further data collection through interpretive-historical approaches. Looking at the history of architecture in Antarctica as a whole, there is a marked shift in station design during this time. There are some outliers to this hypothesis, these cases are still noticeably different from their predecessors with the inclusion of architectural firms and the addition of a ‘design process’ to their development. It is the instigation of design competitions that created more public knowledge of Antarctic programs, research, and habitation. Pulling the design of research stations out of the traditional institutionalised approach and bringing it to the doorstep of architectural firms fundamentally changed the image and awareness of the built environment in Antarctica.
