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Theme Social sustainability
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In this section human comfort is investigated via empirical knowledge from architectural and engineering research and elaborates on correlated theory. This section also takes different user groups and their needs into consideration. Two case studies are conducted as well.
When building a Sustainable Welfare Building, it’s essential to have the user and it’s well-being in mind. The purpose is to expand designers understanding of human comfort, in order to cover both qualitative and quantitative user preferences. Comfort is specifically important when designing a health centre as it both acts as positive stimulation as well as part of the users healing process. This motivates the question of how positive stimulation of human can happen in physical surroundings.
Method: Interview and questionnaire
This method is mostly utilized in problem and analysing phase, by looking at what challenges and opportunities the site will give, and the different users. The interview can be subjective interviews of a person, a user group, or just by gathering information. In this project a qualitative interview has been conducted with different patients and staff members. Tools: recording, writing, quantitative - and qualitative interviews.
Method: Persona
A method that focuses on the user perspective. By combining empirical data like surveys, interviews and observations with personal interpolations, these methods can support the architectural quality of the overall programming of the design. Tools: surveys, interviews, statistics, questionnaire.
Case study: Maggies Centre & Room for life:
When suffering from stress, surroundings must be as subdued, comforting and supportive as possible. This analysis of Maggie’s Centre is aiming to investigate practice and research on healing architecture uncovering effects of interior colours and materials that can be utilised to address human sensory. In the Room for Life case study, we investigate specific design principles of healing architecture of a health design for cancer patients in a Danish context; a Danish version of a Maggie’s centre, aiming to obtain knowledge on key features supporting the human healing process.
