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ARCHITECTURE OF HEALING ENVIRONMENT
Depending on the individual’s requirements and viewpoints, healing settings get arranged in a variety of ways. In 2004, the Samueli Institute created the term Optimal Healing Environment (OHE) as a definition of a healthcare system aiming to initiate and promote families’, patients’, and care providers’ innate healing potential. Individuals in relationships, their health-generating activities, and the physical world together make up an OHE (Sakallaris et al. 2015). The external surroundings set up a favourable material environment helping the body, mind, and soul find serenity, happiness, and vitality. The ambient aspects of healing environments, such as colours, sound, light, temperature, and air quality, are the most important factors to consider. When it comes to controlling the stress of users, physical surroundings are essential. Internal, interpersonal, and behavioural involvement of its occupants must receive supports in healing settings. The primary goal of the design research is to promote morbific prototypes of symptom management towards the material world that supports health. (Sakallaris et al. 2015) Biophilic Design is a kind of architecture that inspires inhabitants to connect with nature in order to establish a healthy habitat for them to inhabit. There is proof that Biophilic Design is a beneficial approach in decreasing mental pressure, boosting brain inventiveness, enhancing wellbeing, and speeding up the healing progression in the built environment (Browning, Ryan, and Clancy 2014). The fourteen patterns of Biophilic Design Elements have been divided into three categories: nature in the spatial patterns, natural analogue patterns, and nature of spatial patterns, according to an article published by Therapin Bright Green (Browning, Ryan, and Clancy 2014). In his essay, Stephen R. Kellert argued that Biophilic Design is about humanity’s role in nature and the natural world’s place in human civilisation, not only about greening the space design by adding plants (Kellert et al. 2008, 7). Nikos Salingaros (2015) supports this assertion by further claiming that creating a biophilic environment requires more than just adding green components and technology; the structure of the building itself must try to be therapeutic. Then, he developed “Eight points of Biophilic Effects,” a set of variables that can contribute to practical Biophilic experiences that can be used as a standard to measure the effectiveness of Biophilic Design interferences. Life, Curves, Fractals, Gravity, Water, Color, and Light are those eight points of Biophilic Effects from Salingaros (2015).
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