The Impact of the Reviewed Case Studies on Pedestrians’ Health and Wellbeing

5.0 DISCUSSION

5.1 THE IMPACT OF THE REVIEWED CASE STUDIES ON PEDESTRIANS’ HEALTH AND WELLBEING

The present study explored the impact of four façade design case studies and their urban environment on pedestrians’ perception, affect, and walking experience in real life scenarios by building on theories that the physical built environment influences health and wellbeing variables (Bornioli et al., 2018; Gatrell, 2013; Gesler, 2005), and to address the knowledge gap that the role of building facades as a component of the walking experience remains not well understood (Hollander and Anderson, 2020). The study established a façade design configuration system that formulated the visual exterior of the buildings – highlighting shared commonalties and differences of the exterior envelope through a descriptive ID measure and used responses from a pedestrian questionnaire as well as quantitative and qualitative accounts of the urban environment to investigate the subject matter.