Over the past few decades, there has been a growing interest in passive design strategies in the built environment, such as daylight. Using sunlight as the source, passive daylighting aims to provide effective natural lighting into the building while retaining maximum visual comfort without using mechanical equipment. Various research has shown the benefits of the natural environment to aid in human recovery, including daylighting. The majority of the biophilic design studies focused on workplace and healthcare environments such as hospital design. While biophilic architecture brings the meaning of nature to the internal environment, the positive effects of this biophilia are particularly concerned on healthcare facilities as it puts an element of extreme pressure on the space. This paper aims to understand the relationship between the patients and staffs’ experiences of their physical environment, specifically addressing the use of daylighting as aiding the recovery of patients and restorative impact for the users. This paper investigates the effects of daylighting in the inpatient ward at Seri Manjung Hospital through a set of questionnaires distributed to the 50 respondents of male and female users aged18 and above. This inpatient ward space is built with windows and utilising natural lighting during the day.The participants were asked to share their experience on the lighting conditions in the ward space and the impact on their health and recovery. The outcome of this study has shown that passive daylighting technique and biophilic design in inpatient wards help to increase users' connectivity with nature, improve physical and psychological well-being and accelerate the recovery process. Consequently, incorporating passive daylighting and biophilic design in a healthcare setting will shift the hospital's design to be more sustainable and responsive to the environment

The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has become one of the driving factors behind the rapidly rising importance of online learning globally. Google Workspace has proven successful at enhancing teaching and learning by being the top choice of online educators in ensuring teaching and learning would not be disrupted. However, there has been a minimal study that focused on students' adoption and the use of Google Workspace in Malaysia among architecture students. The main challenge in the architectural learning environment is the replacement of face-to-face with online approaches. Therefore, this research explores architecture students' behaviour practices using Google Workspace for learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic. This study employed a quantitative research method using a survey to obtain data. The study used the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 (UTAUT2), consisting of seven elements to decipher student behaviour in the learning process from three (3) Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) campuses that offer design-based courses. This research applied a combination of cluster and stratified random sampling by identifying the total population of architecture students in the three UiTM campuses. Of the seven (7) elements of behavioural patterns, Effort Expectancy has the highest frequency distribution and Hedonistic Motivation had the least. The findings suggest that Google Workspace has a favourable proclivity to be employed in design studio learning and revealed architecture students' acceptance of the use of Google Workspace for Education in these three (3) campuses. Thus, the results also serve as a resource for educators to use in devising strategies for their teaching methods in the new norm of a more engaging design studio.

The notion of Prevention through Design (PtD) has been used extensively to mitigate any potential hazard and minimize residual risks during the early design phase. However, there are hurdles in implementing the PtD concept, such as lack of enforcement in terms of legislation and guideline, thus decreasing architects’ responsibilities towards implementing PtD in the design and planning stage. Therefore, the review was motivated to highlight the PtD concept and the architect’s responsibility to build safety performance throughout its entire lifecycle. The finding of this paper reveals the themes that influence the role of architects towards adopting the PtD concept, which in turn affects the safety of the whole building lifecycle. Since this paper focuses solely on the role of architects, further development of the topic can be aimed towards other roles of consultants.

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