Biophilic Design for Restorative University Learning Environments: A Critical Review of Literature and Design Recommendations

Peters, Terri; D'Penna, Kristen

doi:10.3390/su12177064

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“…Some of the hospital environment design features that affect a patient's recovery process related to the physical environment are odour, sound, and light (Aripin S., 2007;Chong & Shanshan, 2020). The patients and healthcare workers had high anxiety around hospital environments when the Covid-19 pandemic happened (Peters & D'Penna, 2020). The author also mentioned an empirical research study related to the indoor spaces that are urgently needed to help boost patients' and workers' mental and physical state conditions.…”

Section: Hospital Planning and Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Covid-19 Pandemic: Impacts on the Hospital Environment and Spatial Design

Tajudin

Amat

2022

Int J. of BES

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Covid-19 is the most significant pandemic that happened at the end of 2019, where the first confirmed case was reported in Wuhan, China. Given the high population and economic activities in cities, there are always possibilities for Covid-19 to spread widely. Hence, the impacts in the urban area are much bigger affected by this pandemic. The fact that existing hospital design raises concerns and questions among people across the globe regarding the hospital capacity and lack of flexibility to accommodate sudden surges of patients due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Previous studies showed that hospital spatial design and organization are crucial and impact users’ perceptions and experiences from multiple stakeholders. The scholars argue that the concept of restorative environment is rarely defined and some of the initiatives either focused on daily life in hospitals or broad terms about hospital architecture, layout, and interior design. The overview on the impact of Covid-19 towards hospital environment, hospital spatial design and its relationship through content analysis, and pilot survey as the groundwork are significant features to be discovered in this paper. This paper focuses on the existing hospital spatial design principles through the effectiveness and efficiency of current hospital planning design during the pandemic. The result indicates that the empirical principles contribute to hospital planning and design quality and call for further research.

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Section: Hospital Planning and Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Covid-19 Pandemic: Impacts on the Hospital Environment and Spatial Design

Tajudin

Amat

2022

Int J. of BES

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“…Students associate waterfront spaces with optimal perceived attention restoration effect, followed by vegetation spaces, courtyard spaces and square spaces ( Lu and Fu, 2019 ). The integration of water elements in university design is scarce ( Peters and D’Penna, 2020 ) but studies have revealed that images of nature depicting water are restorative and images of study areas with a water feature are preferred ( Hami and Abdi, 2019 ). Also, when combined with diversified vegetation and various levels of privacy, water scenes provide positive distraction.…”

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An Exploration of How Biophilic Attributes on Campuses Might Support Student Connectedness to Nature, Others, and Self

Alves

Gulwadi

Nilsson³

2022

Front. Psychol.

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University Campuses remain important settings for nurturing and supporting student health and quality of life (QoL). Research shows the health benefits of nature experiences may be facilitated by campus spaces and activities that afford connectedness. Connectedness to nature, others, and self may allow students to cope with mental fatigue, stress, and a constant need for restoration. Despite recent encouraging trends, we still lack an integrative conceptual framework to describe the mechanisms involved in achieving connectedness for making recommendations for campus design. In this conceptual review, we examine students’ connectedness in campus settings in relation to biophilic elements and attributes. We aim to understand how both direct and indirect pursuits in nature and also place-based experiences on campus foster connectedness and consequently impact students’ health and QoL. Our analysis shows that connectedness seen through the lens of Kellert’s biophilic design principles and aided by Alexander’s pattern language provides a relational and long-term perspective on recommending strategies for connecting students to nature, to others, and to themselves in campus settings.

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“…In other words, employees want their built environment to be attractive and accessible with well-developed infrastructure to work and perform at work. The influence of environmental design on people's wellbeing and productivity has been well studied in occupational settings such as offices, hospitals, university campuses, etcetera (Peters & D'Penna, 2020). However, the built environment at the university impacts the emotional stress, happiness, stimulation, cognitive function, social support, belonging, places to wordy or work, lighting, and ventilation (ibid).…”

Section: The Conducive Work Space and Built Environment For Happiness...mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Scoping Review on Kindness in the Work Environment

Hashim

Zainuddin

Aminuddin

et al. 2022

E-BPJ

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The paper aims to provide new, theoretical insights on kindness at work to counter bullying on the job. Studies have shown that a range of kindness acts and activities will boost happiness and job satisfaction at work and spillover to the home. Based on the research objectives, the findings identified elements of kindness and unkindness and the built environment's effects on work happiness. The scoping review method and PRISMA analysis revealed that kindness in the work environment depends on the organizational culture, leadership, and organization size. Organizational leaders' exemplary behavior sets the kindness culture towards kindness and happiness at work. The study limitation was the timeframe. Thus, a survey is recommended for empirical evidence to support the theoretical and conceptual frameworks. Keywords: Kindness; Civility; Bullying; Built Environment eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2022. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA CE-Bs by E-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer-review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians/Africans/Arabians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v7i20.3304

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Biophilic Design for Restorative University Learning Environments: A Critical Review of Literature and Design Recommendations

Cited by 66 publications

References 70 publications

The Covid-19 Pandemic: Impacts on the Hospital Environment and Spatial Design

The Covid-19 Pandemic: Impacts on the Hospital Environment and Spatial Design

An Exploration of How Biophilic Attributes on Campuses Might Support Student Connectedness to Nature, Others, and Self

A Scoping Review on Kindness in the Work Environment

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