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Holistic Dwelling: integrating biophilic design, environmental psychology, and feng shui
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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 investigated.
In this document each of these methods is examined, starting by looking at how the methods were developed over time. Theories, schools of thought, and popular studies, schools explored to fully understand each method. Beyond this background information, there are specific attributes from each method that are significant towards the design of a residence. At this point the methods interact with each other and how they overlap to agree on certain elements. The final portion of the Doctor of Architecture project is a design of a house that takes what has been discovered and tests it in a practical setting.
The research does not support a total overlap that was initially hypothesized. However, for most attributes, there are at least two methods with recommendations, and at least one element within the attributes that two methods both agree upon as being beneficial. This comes from the different approaches and foci of environmental psychology, feng shui, and biophilic design.
In architecture, the future inhabitants are important in the design process. To consider this aspect, a design project takes a practical took at the research. A small family volunteered to act as a client looking for a new single family residence on Peacham Pond in Vermont. Through a series of meetings, the client explained what they needed in the home and narrowed down specifically what layout they were interested in.
The final design takes the attributes from the research and marries it with the input of the client. Beyond the building, the site and landscaping is taken into consideration since a common theme throughout biophilic design, environmental psychology and feng shui. The design is extensively analyzed against the attributes of the home identified in the research portion.
The overarching objective of this document is to find a technique of designing homes that are more attuned to the well-being of the client. Since this is the environment where people consistently spend the most of their time, it needs take specific needs of individual clients into consideration. This document introduces a framework that aids in this process.
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... 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. ...
... 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.
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.
In this article the construct of generalized expectancies for internal vs external control of reinforcement is used as a model to present a brief on the importance of broad theory and training in theory construction and evaluation in psychology. Specifically, the extraordinary heuristic value of this construct is attributed to 4 characteristics: the nature of the definition, the careful imbedding of the construct in a theoretical context, the use of a broad behavior theory in construction of a measure of individual differences, and the programmatic nature of the original research as well as the format of the early publications. Reevaluation of the characteristic criteria for publication of research studies and for the evaluation of promotion or advancement for psychologists involved in research activities is also discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
How does a room affect an occupant's behavior and well-being? How does a building influence its residents' health? Environmental Psychology for Design, 3rd Edition, explores these questions with an in-depth look at psychosocial responses to the built environment. Awarded the 2006 ASID Joel Polsky Prize, the first edition served as an introduction to the discipline of environmental psychology and inspired readers to embrace its key concepts and incorporate them into their practice. This 3rd edition continues to analyze the interaction between environments and human behavior and well-being, while exploring how individual differences related to age, gender, and cultural background impact that interaction.
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This Special Section features a number of perspectives on the vital role played by natural environments. The three empirical papers, using different approaches and measures, representing diverse populations in different countries, and different kinds of natural settings, all provide evidence for the importance of nature to human well-being. This paper presents the Reasonable Person Model (RPM) as a framework for understanding how the environment can help bring out the best in people. Demographic and regional variations notwithstanding, people are empowered by opportunities to make a difference and be respected, they are concerned with being effective, and their efforts are guided by their mental models. Having nature nearby, even if modest in scale, can be particularly beneficial in offsetting some of the consequences of depleted attentional resources which readily undermine reasonable behavior. We focus on some important distinctions between psychological restoration (and its relationship to the effectiveness domain of RPM) and environmental preference (and its connection to RPM's model building domain). Today's all too pervasive unreasonableness is costly in terms of personal and social well-being. Understanding the vital capacity of the natural environment can make a substantial difference in bringing out the best in people.
This paper reports the results of a study of residential satisfaction in students' housing in Nigeria. The study examined how satisfied students were and the factors which predicted residential satisfaction. Specifically, it examined whether the morphological configurations of the halls of residence would predict residential satisfaction. Data were obtained from questionnaires distributed to a sample of 1124 respondents from all the halls of residences in four residential universities in Southwestern Nigeria. The data comprised objective and subjective measures of the physical, social and management attributes of the halls of residence. These were analyzed using frequencies, factor analysis and categorical regression models. More than half (53%) of the respondents were dissatisfied with their residences and the variables which explained satisfaction were the social qualities of the residences, especially, the social densities; the kitchenette, bathroom and storage facilities and some demographic characteristics of the students. The morphological configuration of the halls of residence was also found to be a predictor of satisfaction and the characteristics which appeared most significant were the plan form and the length of the corridor. The regression model explained 65% of the variance in R2. An instructive finding was that satisfaction appeared most critical in the bedroom.
Residential satisfaction is a significant topic in environmental psychology yet there is little research on residential satisfaction among elders. This research aims to identify the cognitive structure of residential satisfaction of elderly persons living in their own dwellings and to identify demographic and psychological variables related to this residential satisfaction. One hundred and three participants, ranging in age from 72 to 86 years old and living at home in the central France, answered (a) a purpose-developed questionnaire to measure their residential satisfaction, (b) an environmental quality questionnaire aimed at evaluating both the physical and social environments, and (c) several psychological variables including: the ESV, a French adaptation of the Satisfaction with Life Scale which examines the general well-being of aging people; and three single well-being items assessing financial well-being, perceived health, and perception of oneself as active. The results indicated that in this sample, residential satisfaction corresponds to a four-dimension structure organized by physical location rather than psychological or behavioral aspects. The four components were the local area, access to services, relations with neighbors, and the home itself. Satisfaction with each component was related to different predictors, supporting the idea that elders hold complex and nuanced views of their homes and neighborhoods.