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Zetterquist, Adam Gregory. "Healing Environments elements of retreat /." Thesis, Montana State University, 2009. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2009/zetterquist/ZetterquistA0509.pdf.
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Rust, Elizabeth Susanna (Lizel). "Healing waters : creating therapeutic space." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5996.
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Helminski, Laura A. "[Hospital]ityHospitable Hospitals: The Place of Healing." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1396524136.
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Chua, Matthew Jian. "Hosting wellness : devices for healing the body." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/42448.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2008.Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-109).
In today's global economy, expenditure on the promotion of health is steadily rising across continents. With many nations spending over 10% of their GDP on public health, we are now seeing many medical practices achieving miraculous breakthroughs, making the impossible possible through healing. Modern health care is has given individuals the ability to live longer and survive sicknesses, which were fatal not very long ago. Paradoxically, as our dependence on modern science increases, there is also a growing dissatisfaction with conventional medical techniques. Western scientific medicine tends to alienate patients by prioritizing the illness above the individual, in 5 search for the quickest remedy. In 2006, 250 billion dollars was spent on medicated drugs in the United States, exemplifying the social and medical trend to overmedicate patients, or quick curing. In contrast, Eastern medicine, with its holistic philosophies, tends to search for the source of illness, while providing a method of continuous maintenance on the body, or prolonged curing. Rather than living longer, health care should aid us in living better. As all forms of medicine seek to ease human suffering, the hypothesis is that in bonding of the two most prominent and practiced forms of medicine, new medical techniques and practices will evolve, producing a more balanced and thorough method of living with illness and wellness. The future of health care lies in the productive dialogue between Eastern and Western medical technology, bonding together to produce a more satisfactory form of global of medicine. Through the evolution of healing, Hospitals will no longer be perceived and a place for the ill, but rather as a place for the promotion of wellness - a host for wellness.
by Matthew Jian Chua.
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Plummer, Kristin. "Sustainable Healing: Rethinking Cancer Center Design." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1522341437826741.
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Samad, Sumayia Binte. "Cohabiting Third Place: Integrating Natural Hydrology with Healing Architecture." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/98842.
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Washington D.C. has been ranked third among U.S. cities in terms of its percentage of youth who have reported a severe major depressive episode. Depression, stress, anxiety are the uninvited visitors of our day-to-day urban living. Most of the time we ignore our mental health unless we reach the threshold. We know nature is the best healer. The District also has reported the highest percentage of parkland but this statistic is not helping regarding Healing and Wellness. There might be a missing piece of the puzzle to reconnect with nature.
To dive deep into the missing piece, I have looked back to the basics, into the four elements of the planet, Earth, Water, Air, and Fire. This thesis is an exploration of the most important natural element, Water, along with the other three elements, as active participants in our everyday urban life, not only as a means of reconnecting with nature but also aiding with natural healing to our depressed, tired soul.
As with many other older cities, Washington D.C. mostly depends on the combined storm and sanitary sewer. During heavy rainfall, stormwater overflows the capacity of the sewage system and empties into the river with sewage. But there is an opportunity for the stormwater to be treated and reused at the site. Rainwater along with tapped groundwater as the perennial flow will be considered as the source of healing water in the dense downtown context of the District. The thesis will tell the story of the arrival of Water into the middle of the city. Water will be examined in all its forms and integrated with the Third Place, where the young working generation can come in the middle of the working day to catch a lunch break or after office rush hour to relax their stressed nerves and heal their inner soul. This design for a community learning center at First Street NE in NoMA neighborhood, Washington D.C. is an effort to trace the path of the long-lost Tiber Creek and to provide the inhabitants with a for Water and growth.Master of Architecture
Washington D.C. has been ranked third among U.S. cities in terms of its percentage of youth who have reported a severe major depressive episode. Depression, stress, anxiety are the uninvited visitors of our day-to-day city life. Most of the time we ignore our mental health unless we reach the threshold. We know nature is the best healer. The District also has reported the highest percentage of the green area but maybe only the "Green" is not enough for healing. To dive deep into the missing piece of the puzzle, I have walked back to the basics, looking into the four elements of the planet, Earth, Water, Air, and Fire. This thesis is an exploration of the most important natural element, Water, along with the other three elements, in architecture and urban design, not only as a means of reconnecting with nature but also aiding with natural healing to our depressed, tired soul. As with many other older cities, Washington D.C. mostly depends on the combined storm and sanitary sewer. During heavy rainfall, stormwater overflows the capacity of the sewage system and empties into the river with sewage. In this research, rainwater is considered as the source of healing water in the dense downtown context of the District. This thesis also examined tapping groundwater and bring it to the city street level. The thesis will tell the story of the arrival of Water into the middle of the city. This design for a community learning center at First Street NE in NoMA neighborhood, Washington D.C. is an effort to trace the path of the long-lost Tiber Creek and to provide the inhabitants with a place for Water and growth.
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Ancona, Andrew J. "Healing Through Bio-Geometries: A Study of Designed Natural Processes." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491303530064519.
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Ngwira, Lumbani. "Earth in Architecture: An Exploration of Malawian Vernacular and Healing." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/79697.
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Can a hospital be more than a center for treatment? Can it initiate a sense of healing in the individual as well as the community?
The hospital in its early form was a facility meant to house the sick in ancient Egyptian temples. Prayers, sacrifices and dream interpretations were used in the healing process as well as quintessential medical procedures such as opium for pain and stitching of wounds. Monasteries were later established to accommodate travelers, the indigent and the sick.
Hospitals were constructed next to Religious institutions but also utilized house calls for the wealthy class. Monasteries were also organized in cloisters which were places of retreats from the mundane.
The idea of hospitals today is to diagnose, treat and heal patients which has proven to be effective with most diseases being prevented and eradicated entirely from our day to day lives. However, these conditions aren't as similar in Malawi.
The origin of the word hospital is derived from the Latin word "hospitalia" meaning a place of refuge for guests and strangers. The need for effectively functioning hospital in Malawi is apparent, but the need to create a hospital that heals and creates a sense of community and tranquility for both the guest and wondering traveler is paramount.Master of Architecture
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Mardin, Osam Ramzi. "Healing Over-the-Rhine with Light and Color in Architecture." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1085687343.
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Ramontsho, Lucky Thapelo. "Healing environments : architecture as therapy at the Mowbray Town Hall site." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13161.
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Includes bibliographical references.My design dissertation project is an investigation of Architecture as Therapy - a means with which to heal the environment (including peoples) as well as re-integrate them, especially those who have been marginalized. The design utilizes place-making design elements that would encourage their participation, by borrowing good ideas and examples from existing work/ projects. The project is focused on three main important key factors: * Fixing a site (through a strategic choice of site as urban rather than sub-urban). * Giving back the space to the people especially those who have been marginalized. * Proposing an architectural typology that seeks to fix both the site and people. This dissertation proposes an alternative; architecture as therapy, with the programme of a half way home to explore how architecture might reinvigorate Mowbray Town Hall site and operate with respect to pre-discharged patients / out patients from Valkenburg the state’s psychiatric hospital nearby Observatory. The building is not a psychiatric Centre such as Valkenburg psychiatric hospital but rather promote the idea of therapy, a means with which to heal urban environments and re-integrate people. Architecture as therapy provides the conceptual grounding for the project. The purpose of the work is not only focused on patients or to challenge notions of therapy processes and healthcare facilities but to address the on going ill-treatment of public urban spaces due to negative human behavior and also encourage positive human participation within their environments. Architecture as therapy suggests the potential to generate a new architectural typology with which the design of its spaces and elements within an urban public environment produce therapy and positive treatment of urban public spaces. Both the people and site will receive holistic treatment with a view to promoting recovery.
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Hjort, Ebba. "Responding Objects – Poetic Design and Healing Spaces." Thesis, Konstfack, Inredningsarkitektur & Möbeldesign, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-7837.
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Today's social climate and working environments expose us to excessive expectations and demands and more and more people are diagnosed with stress-related illnesses. My degree project is an investigation of poetic design, healing spaces and fatigue syndrome and the importance of adapted health care environments that strengthen treatment and recovery. My mother has fatigue syndrome, she has been ill for over six years, and she still has severe symptoms that probably never fully will go way. So, the purpose of this project is, on the one hand an attempt to get a deeper understanding of her situation, and on the other, to shed some light on this illness that is getting more and more common, especially amongst women. Research shows that spending time in nature has healing effects for those with mental illness. Using my definition of poetic design as a method, I have transposed qualities of nature into an indoor environment that reconnects to humans deep and genetic relationship to nature. I am proposing a new type of health care space with a much-needed holistic approach. Focus is on treatments such as mindfulness, basal body awareness and yin yoga as well as different kinds of therapy and activities in a space close to nature. A holistic space including a garden, an indoor space and a piece of furniture that are designed to respond to the non-measurable and invisible symptoms of fatigue syndrome.
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Zhang, Xuegong. "Biologically inspired highly reliable electronic systems with self-healing cellular architecture." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.418445.
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Pulugam, Sandhya Reddy. "A novel self healing ring architecture for metropolitan area networks (MANs)." abstract and full text PDF (UNR users only), 2009. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1464423.
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Gray, Zara. "Rituals of health : new healing spaces for Khayelitsha district hospital." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17127.
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The intention of this thesis was to challenge how we, as architects are appropriating new formations of space within the city. The research began as an exploration into how a contemporary African city space could be envisioned, a future trajectory of design thinking that challenges normative systems of design. The diverse nature of South African cities should have an architecture that responds to its lived reality and one that reflects cultural difference. This exploration was narrowed down to view a need that ran across cultural lines. I chose to do this through looking at various health systems that prevail in our current society. The challenge was to critically seek out new ways that one could accommodate for various cultural beliefs while viewing these various health practices. These explorations were carried out in two sections - the first section looks at our current condition and what the prevailing health systems are in our society, as well as the challenges these various views on health pose. The second section focuses on a spatial understanding of how these systems are carried out in our city and seeks to analyse the various spatiality's of healing practices. The idea is to search for how new spaces of healthcare could be realised that reflect cultural difference, rituals and practices and which respond to a South African condition.
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Kallushi, Abi Elena. "Healing Architecture for Troubled Nightowls: Restoring Natural Rhythms in Nocturnal U Street." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/73776.
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This thesis is an exploration of architecture as an active participant in human life, not just as a stage. When architecture is considered a participant it contributes to the improvement of our quality of life as well as aiding the healing process when we fall ill. As more people are diagnosed with anxiety and sleep disorders, the thesis considered questions of how the places in which we carry out our day-to-day lives improve the prognosis and, further, can architecture be used as a powerful tool for healing? It is possible that our disconnection from nature is partially responsible for our disrupted sleep patterns and misplaced anxieties. Perhaps natural elements and rhythms are too absent in our daily urban lives. But as more of us move into cities and our urban centers become denser, designers must find clever ways to help city owls reset their circadian rhythm. Architecture can help reestablish that bond with nature. This thesis explores an architecture of healing by proposing a program and design that follows the day and night circadian rhythm of our bodies, which in turn follow the sun and other natural phenomena. Located in a tricky triangular site in one of the busiest nighttime neighborhoods of Washington DC, a wellness center and sleep clinic would allow city dwellers to find a peaceful oasis for healing. In parallel, this thesis is also a study of collage as a design tool, as well as designing from details and the human scale.Master of Architecture
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Simmons, Geoffrey Alan. "The Healing Environment: A Healthcare Center for Cancer Patients." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1217266157.
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Thesis (Master of Architecture)--University of Cincinnati, 2008.Advisor: David Niland. Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Oct. 23, 2008). Includes abstract. Keywords: cancer; healthcare; healing; environment; design. Includes bibliographical references.
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Sherman, Sandra Anne. "Healing effects of the built environment." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3321036.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego and San Diego State University, 2008.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed Aug. 1, 2008). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 120-127).
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AYERS, AMANDA KAY. "WOMEN, ENVIRONMENT, AND HEALING: A BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTER." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1070897265.
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Ingebrigtsen, Anna. "Grounds For Healing : Tales of Toxic Terrain." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-140580.
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This project proposes the restoration of Vinterviken’s contaminated grounds, a legacy of Nobel’s dynamite production. How can we live with toxicity? The design sows phytoremediating meadows, extracts toxins, harvests, decomposes, burns, and grows new crops. Elevated pathways offer a procession through the site, to green roofs, mountain paths, an open kitchen & hearth, a floating barge with biopools & a sauna. As the fields are healed, the structures move into the barge and sail to other polluted sites.Projektet är ett förslag till återställandet av Vintervikens förorenade marker, ett arv från Nobels dynamitproduktion. Hur kan vi leva med toxicitet? Modellen sår fytoremedierande ängar, skiljer ut gifter, skördar, bryter ned, bränner, och odlar nya grödor. Förhöjda stigar erbjuder en gångväg genom området, till gröna tak, bergsstigar, ett öppet kök och härd, en flytande pråm med biopooler och en bastu. När områdena har läkts, flyttar strukturerna in i pråmen och seglar till andra förorenade platser.
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Sharifi, Nahal Alsadat. "Children's Hospice Care." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71772.
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With advancements in medical technology, the mechanics of dying and death has changed significantly. Centuries ago, people mostly died of infectious diseases. From the time they were diagnosed, to the time of their death did not take long. Today, public health has improved remarkably. We have a better control over infectious diseases, but we have to deal with cancer and other chronic illnesses. The long period of treatment for such illnesses makes us spend a lot of our time in healthcare facilities such as hospitals, hospices, and care homes.
Unfortunately, in many cases, these facilities do not pay much attention to emotional and spiritual needs of their patients and are mostly designed around their own institutional and technological needs. In that regard, these buildings become pretty awful places with no natural light and long corridors.
Today, due to the nature of chronic diseases that we mostly deal with, hospice care facilities are becoming more popular. The idea of a hospice is to focus on quality of the place for families and patients who have already spent a lot of their time in a hospital setting. The goal is provide humane care for patients who do not have much time left, to make sure that they live the remainder of their lives as comfortably and as fully as possible.
It is important to remember that when such facilities are designed for children, we need to pay extra attention to their unique needs. It is important to provide opportunities for children with terminal illnesses to continue to learn and grow.
This thesis is exploration of an architectural setting in which children with a terminal prognosis would spend the last few weeks of their lives. Located in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, this project takes advantage of the existing nature of the site to create an oasis for families who have gone through an exhausting battle with an untreatable disease. The goal is to shift the focus from curing to healing and to create a nurturing place that helps to bring normalcy back to the lives of patients and their families.Master of Architecture
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Meyerhoff, Marc Bradley. "Therapeutic Parking: A study of how the language of therapeutic design informs the redesign of the Georgetown University Hospital main parking garage." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42692.
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A successful landscape is one that allows people to feel comfortable within that landscape. Many people who live in an urban environment use gardens and parks as a way to balance their lives from the hard edge of what the world requires of them. That balance adds to the level of comfort and a decrease in stress. My thesis is to create a parking garage with that balance. A balance of hardscape with softscape, of practical uses with amenities, and of current methodology with progressive ideology. It will integrate parking and gardens, the static with the transitional. The proposal will create a balance between parking spaces where time is measured in hours with garden areas where time is measured in seasons. Thomas Jefferson said, â It takes time to persuade man to do even what is for his own good.â This thesis is an example of that. Something that will take time for people, companies, municipalities and governing bodies to aspire to but that will, ultimately, be to the benefit of everyone.Master of Landscape Architecture
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Eisen, Sarajane L. "The healing effects of art in pediatric healthcare: art preferences of healthy children and hospitalized children." Diss., Texas A&M University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/5772.
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Art is assumed to possess therapeutic benefits of healing for children, as part of patient-focused design in healthcare. Research on adult patients suggests that by infusing art into the healthcare setting, the design may reduce stress that could impede the healing process. Since the psychological and physiological well-being of children in healthcare settings is extremely important in contributing to the healing process, it is vitally important to identify what type of art supports stress reduction. Nature art was anticipated to be the most preferred and have stress-reducing effects on pediatric patients. The objective of this study was to investigate what type of art children prefer, and what type of art has potentially stress-reducing effects on pediatric patients. This study used a three-phase, multimethod approach: a focus group study, a randomized study, and a quasi-experimental study design. Findings from three phases were evaluated. The objective of Phase 1 was to discern what type of art school children prefer, Phase 2 focused on what type of art hospitalized children prefer and to compare these preferences identified in Phase 1. Phase 3 was a quasi-experimental study to determine if nature art has a potentially healing effect on pediatric patients when compared to abstract art or no art at all. The findings of this study demonstrate that nature art is the preferred type of art by children from age 5 to 17. But there were no significant differences among the three art intervention groups of pediatric patients. These findings led to design recommendations regarding what art should be placed in children'ÃÂÃÂs hospital rooms in order to create a stress-reducing, healing environment.
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Abu, Lawi Rawa. "Healing by design : interior architecture and interior design of public spaces of children's hospitals." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2017. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/87273/.
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This research focuses on four main topics: Children’s’ Cognitive Development as it relates to age-appropriate interior design; Children’s Hospital Design and healing environments; Public Spaces in Hospitals – interior architecture and interior design; Contextual Issues – specifically, the religious, ethnic and national context of Palestine. Literature indicates that research is needed in the design of healing environments for children in order to create spaces that are child-friendly and meet their cognitive development needs. There is little research available about the design of the public areas of children’s hospital including the main entrance, atrium and thoroughfares. Also, most empirical research uses traditional social science methods to understand the requirements for healing environments for children (e.g. interviews, observations). Few studies use design- or arts-based approaches. Furthermore, most research has been conducted in the West, with little research from other countries, like Palestine, where few hospitals are devoted only to children. This research aimed to determine: (1) key design factors, functions, constraints and programme requirements for designing the public spaces of children’s hospitals in an age-appropriate way to promote healing; (2) how context-specific issues relating to Palestine play a role in determining the key design factors. From a critical analysis of the literature, specific research questions and the development of a primary research plan were developed. The main research question is: For a new children’s hospital in Palestine, how should the public areas (i.e., main entrance, atrium, and throughfares) be designed so that they are suitable for all age ranges and promote healing? In Palestine, qualitative data were collected during nine co-design and cocreation workshops that included arts-based activities and semi-structured interviews. Participants included children from 3-18 years, parents, doctors, nurses, reception and admissions staff, and four groups of designers. All participants, excluding the designers, participated in drawing and modeling activities. The use of drawings with children is an indispensable tool because their verbal expression is often not highly developed, and because preferences and ideas can be expressed more intuitively. Similarly, models can be effective tools because children can express ideas and preferences about form, materials and size through them in a way that words alone cannot describe. This study uses a thematic analysis approach to analysing the qualitative data. The results of data analysis were sorted into main themes and sub-themes. The key findings of this study are: context-specific issues (i.e. culture, gender, separation and religion issues); physical environments: interior architecture and interior design – medical spaces (e.g. emergency, outpatients, triage room and others); non-medical spaces (e.g. play areas, indoor and outdoor green areas, entertainment activities, spaces for eating, reception, waiting areas and admissions); interior design elements (e.g. image design, art, form and shape, wayfinding signage, and colours); and environmental considerations (e.g. noise, hygiene, smell, and light). These findings will inform guidelines and recommendations and will be supported by visual models for the design of children’s hospitals, particularly public spaces in the particular context of Palestine. The guidelines will contribute to the creation of supportive healing environments for all stakeholders, but particularly for children. This study demonstrates that practical design methods in the research process can be very effective in fostering creativity and in drawing out ideas and preferences from young children and other stakeholders. Such methods provide a novel approach to the design of healing environments for children.
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Parthasarathy, Deepa Priyadarshini. "Phenomena of light, color and material exerted in architectural setting promotes healing." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1260540905.
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Jollye, Katherine Alexandra. "Integrated wellness a healing centre for victims of trauma and abuse /." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2005. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05182005-112433.
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Lau, Ka-po, and 劉家寶. "The spirit of nature: integrate people to healing landscape." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47312506.
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Hong Kong is facing an aging population problem in the coming years. This situation is especially appearing in the New Town such as Tseung Kwan O and Sha Tin. Therefore, healthcare facilities or healing landscape is an important design issue in the future. In the thesis, Haven of Hope Hospital is chosen to demonstrate the healing landscape design. It is a good site to provide an example of healing landscape for reference in the future.
Haven of Hope Hospital is one of the hospitals in the Tseung Kwan O. It provides several different services in the local community such as Geriatrics and Rehabilitation, Pulmonary Care, Palliative Care and infirmary. These types of the service are very close to the quality of the environment. Therefore, healing landscape plays an important role in this type of hospital. At the same time, Tseung Kwan O is a new town, the main development is planning to provide more residential units now. That’s why, healthcare facilities are one of the important things for development in the future to fulfill the large amount of people. In the study, it shows that healing landscape is a medium for people to integrate the natural environment. It is a process to provide different level of healing effect to people such as stress reduction, relieving the pain and self mediation.
In the thesis, relationship among the original hospital landscape, the patient character, and the types of building are found to figure out what healing landscape have to be designed. Some design concepts and theories provide suggestions and guidelines on designing the garden and choosing the plants. Some therapeutic programs can be considered to organize in the healing landscape so as to bring out the healing effect. Truthfully, the main purpose is to create a nice environment to upgrade the quality of life and overall well-being of people.published_or_final_version
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Menéndez, Lilian. "Creating Healing Spaces, the Process of Designing Holistically a Battered Women Shelter." Scholar Commons, 2001. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1539.
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My interest in the environment has led me to study the effects of space on people, both natural and man-made. This project explores how architects and designers can design spaces conducive to the healing process. The emphasis of this thesis is on my design methodology, with the hope that this project will help other designers in their struggle to create spaces that heal the body, soul and spirit.
To develop this project, I chose a shelter for battered women as the building type. This shelter is theoretically located in Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Its main goal is to create an environment in which battered women can recuperate physically, emotionally and spiritually.
In order to accomplish this, I first studied my personal responses to a variety of built, as well as, natural spaces. I used two types of case studies, one looking at spaces and the other looking at the building type. Besides utilizing traditional building analysis, I also used literature to study space, since it allows me to study human’s reaction to space.These helped to shed light on why or why not certain spaces fulfill the building’s purpose. Later, through a series of art workshops with women at a local shelter, I was able to better understand the user. These workshops culminated in a collaborative art installation in which their reality and mine were combined. In addition, I researched other fields that are also trying to understand why we respond to space the way we do. Some of these fields are environmental psychology, sociology, behavioral studies, and art. Their findings led me to design flexible spaces that allow each woman to shape their own space, and spaces that appeal to all six senses.
Following this exploration, I developed a program to meet the user’s requirements. This program described a prototypical facility that embodies ideal conditions. I then explored this program and its spatial requirements through physical models. A series of models interacting with the site gave birth to three design concepts. From these various schemes, a final design was selected and brought to the design development phase.
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Basson, Johan. "Adaptive Healing: Exploring therapeutic architecture and the integration of addiction rehabilitation into the Cape Flats, Mitchells Plain." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13017.
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Includes bibliographical references.This dissertation explores therapeutic architecture and the integration of addiction rehabilitation into the Cape Flats, Mitchells Plain area. This project ultimately introduces the concept of an integrated community rehabilitation and wellness centre in one of the most notorious, unhealthy urban environments in the Western Cape, Mitchells Plain. This will demonstrate that a healing environment can be achieved in any context, urban or rural. A rehabilitation centre that engages with its surrounding community, fostering various levels of controlled interaction between patient and public. An integrated facility that gives back to its community through shared facilities. This investigation also unpacks the existing rehabilitation ecology and the gradual transition process in the formulation of a new hybrid system that combines the various stages of rehabilitation within a centralised facility. The project aims to deinstitutionalize the existing rehabilitation programme through the ‘simulation of a real life’ concept, where the facility will incorporate familiar elements, such as the house, neighbourhood and downtown to replicate the variety of environments in our everyday lives. The design uses ‘nature as therapy through architecture’ with the implementation of various concepts, which includes a raised therapeutic platform and a perimeter planter, serving as an urban filter that defuses the harsh urban context of Mitchells Plain. This project also explores the role of Architectural technology in therapy and ultimately introduces the concept of a highly localised adaptive façade system that allows for individual patient control and to filter the interactive visual relationship between patient and public. Our modern healing facilities have been designed to house apparatus for healing but not to be healing instruments in themselves. Architecture should be considered just as significant as the treatments that it houses.
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Brett, Todd Christopher. "An Event Monitor and Response Framework Based on the WSLogA Architecture." NSUWorks, 2008. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/349.
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Web services provide organizations with a powerful infrastructure by which information and products may be distributed, but the task of supporting Web service systems can be difficult due to the complex nature of environment configuration and operation. Tools are needed to monitor and analyze such Enterprise environments so that appropriate engineering, quality control, or business activities can be pursued.
This investigation resulted in the development of a software development kit, the WSLogA Framework, which is inspired by the vision of Cruz et al. (2003, 2004). The WSLogA Framework provides distributed Enterprise systems with a platform for comprehensive information capture and environment management. Five component groups are intended for employment to enable integrated workflows addressing monitoring and response activities, but these components may also be used individually to facilitate the phased integration of the WSLogA Framework into existing environments. The WSLogA Framework's design is portable across technology platforms (e.g., Java and .NET) and a variety of technologies may be substituted for the provided implementations to address unique system architectures.
The WSLogA Framework supersedes existing logging and monitoring solutions in terms of both capability and intent. Applications based on the WSLogA Framework have an internal, real-time view of their operation and may adjust their environment based on the information provided by events related to their or system activities. The WSLogA Framework is intended as a software development kit around which system functionality may be organized and implemented, which makes the WSLogA Framework an architectural peer or complement to traditional application frameworks such as Spring's Web module. WSLogA Framework based systems should be envisioned as information appliance elements rather than traditionally scoped applications or services.
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Stigsdotter, Ulrika. "Landscape Architecture and Health : evidence-based health-promoting design and planning /." Alnarp : Dept. of Landscape Planning, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 2005. http://epsilon.slu.se/200555.pdf.
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Grizzard, Julian B. "Towards Self-Healing Systems: Re-establishing Trust in Compromised Systems." Diss., Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006, 2006. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-04072006-133056/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006.Schwan, Karsten, Committee Member ; Schimmel, David, Committee Member ; Copeland, John, Committee Member ; Owen, Henry, Committee Chair ; Wills, Linda, Committee Member.
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Khairullah, Shawkat Sabah. "Toward Biologically-Inspired Self-Healing, Resilient Architectures for Digital Instrumentation and Control Systems and Embedded Devices." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5671.
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Digital Instrumentation and Control (I&C) systems in safety-related applications of next generation industrial automation systems require high levels of resilience against different fault classes. One of the more essential concepts for achieving this goal is the notion of resilient and survivable digital I&C systems. In recent years, self-healing concepts based on biological physiology have received attention for the design of robust digital systems. However, many of these approaches have not been architected from the outset with safety in mind, nor have they been targeted for the automation community where a significant need exists. This dissertation presents a new self-healing digital I&C architecture called BioSymPLe, inspired from the way nature responds, defends and heals: the stem cells in the immune system of living organisms, the life cycle of the living cell, and the pathway from Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) to protein. The BioSymPLe architecture is integrating biological concepts, fault tolerance techniques, and operational schematics for the international standard IEC 61131-3 to facilitate adoption in the automation industry. BioSymPLe is organized into three hierarchical levels: the local function migration layer from the top side, the critical service layer in the middle, and the global function migration layer from the bottom side. The local layer is used to monitor the correct execution of functions at the cellular level and to activate healing mechanisms at the critical service level. The critical layer is allocating a group of functional B cells which represent the building block that executes the intended functionality of critical application based on the expression for DNA genetic codes stored inside each cell. The global layer uses a concept of embryonic stem cells by differentiating these type of cells to repair the faulty T cells and supervising all repair mechanisms. Finally, two industrial applications have been mapped on the proposed architecture, which are capable of tolerating a significant number of faults (transient, permanent, and hardware common cause failures CCFs) that can stem from environmental disturbances and we believe the nexus of its concepts can positively impact the next generation of critical systems in the automation industry.
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Miller, Catherine Annalisa. "Earth. Water. Sky. The Liminal Landscape of the Maya Sweatbath." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/52636.
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This dissertation investigates the ancient healing tradition of the Maya sweatbath, its landscape, and rituals, which after three millennia is still practiced today among the contemporary Maya. Frequently overlooked because of its size, the ancient Maya sweatbath's location in ancient ceremonial cores, royal courts, and near important ritual structures and sacred water features accentuates its importance and need to understand its role, siting, and connection with the landscape. A three step approach of rooting, projecting, and transcending is applied to the investigation's structure for examining the sweatbaths conception as the womb of Mother Earth, the structure as a replica of the cosmos, the liminal landscape tethering together water, topography, and the celestial domain, and rituals of purification, healing, and transformation. In addition, the ancient Maya site of Yaxchiln and its three sweatbaths serves as the epicenter, the investigation's initial point of beginning, from where projections are made outward to twenty-eight additional sweatbaths augmenting and defining the scope of sweatbath features and site conditions. A combination of archeological drawings, architectural and landscape plans and sections, ethnographic and ethnohistoric texts, and epigraphic interpretations are examined, in combination and juxtaposition, as a means for integrating the symbolic and physical layers, which in union compose a complimentary narrative highlighting liminality as a principal quality encompassing the sweatbath. Liminality, associated with transition and transformation and fundamental to the Maya notion of gestation and creation of the cosmos, is revealed and demonstrated through the cyclical and everchanging nature of the sweatbath landscape of earth, water and sky, and reflected in man's inherent life processes and fundamental to the sweatbath rituals' symbolism of rebirth and renewal.Ph. D.
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Mirzaei, Narek. "Healing By Design: Evidence-Based Approach in Designing Brain & Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Center." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491315343286767.
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Aldrabinha, Susana Maria Ferreira. "Arquitectura e saúde. contributos para o projecto de um complexo de saúde para a cidade de Odivelas." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa. Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/6648.
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Martins, Ana Rita Barreira. "Os espaços e o seu impacto na cura." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa. Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/12460.
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Dissertação de Mestrado em Arquitetura, apresentada na Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre.Este trabalho final de mestrado aborda o tema da arquitetura como elemento potenciador da cura através do método Evidence-Based Design. Nesse âmbito o projeto desenvolvido é um Centro Terapêutico de Alcoolismo no bairro Quinta do Mocho, Sacavém. O álcool é uma substância socialmente aceite, com vários benefícios, mas o seu abuso poderá trazer graves consequências para a saúde e vida em geral dos dependentes. O alcoolismo é uma doença difícil de detetar e muito estigmatizada, sendo um problema alarmante a nível mundial e que afeta todas as classes sociais e idades. Este trabalho combina por um lado o estudo de como um espaço de cura poderá ser desenhado em prol da recuperação dos seus doentes, por outro procura colmatar a falta de equipamentos no âmbito da rede alcoológica portuguesa atual, que embora prime pela inovação dos seus espaços e conceitos, se debate com a falta de equipamentos novos. Em paralelo estudou-se o bairro da Quinta do Mocho, as suas necessidades e vivências, concluindo-se que faltam equipamentos e espaços públicos de qualidade. É então proposta uma mudança da imagem segregada do bairro, através de estratégias de desenho urbano, de espaço público, zonas verdes e de vários equipamentos, entre eles o desenvolvido nesta dissertação. Ao dar resposta às variadas necessidades do bairro, o Centro terapêutico de Alcoolismo do Mocho para além de oferecer um tratamento numa base de respeito e equilíbrio, também ajuda a quebrar as barreiras existentes entre bairros e fortalece a relação entre o Mocho e a restante Sacavém. Deste modo, “cura” não só os doentes mas também esta zona, reforçando o sentimento de posse deste lugar pela população residente.
ABSTRACT: This thesis explores ways in which architecture can enhance and accelerate the healing process by utilizing the “Evidence-Based Design” method. In this context, the project is a Therapeutic Treatment Center for Alcoholism in Quinta do Mocho, Sacavém. Alcohol is a socially accepted substance, with a number of benefits, but its abuse can have serious consequences for health and life in general. Alcoholism is a disease that is difficult to detect, is stigmatized and is an alarming worldwide problem that affects all social classes and ages. This work primarily combines a study of how a healing space can be designed to promote the recovery of its patients, with an outline of the current Portuguese rehabiltation system; that while having innovative concepts, struggles with the lack of new facilities. In parallel, the neighborhood of Quinta do Mocho was studied along with its inhabitants' needs. It was concluded that there is currently a lack of facilities and good quality of public space. Consequently, we proposed to change the segregated image of this neighborhood through urban design strategies, public space, green areas and various facilities, including the one developed in this dissertation. To respond to the varied needs of the neighborhood, the Therapeutic Treatment Center for Alcoholism of Mocho, provides treatment based on mutual respect and aims to break barriers between the neighborhoods and to strengthen the relationship between Quinta do Mocho and Sacavém as a whole. Thus, the Center is not only treating its patients but also “healing "the place, reinforcing the resisdents' sense of ownership.
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Leung, Hiu-sum, and 梁曉心. "Healing environment in hospitals: improving and redesigning the outdoor areas in the Haven of Hope Hospital." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45009648.
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Cieszykowski, Jeannette Marie. "Restoring the night." Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/17598.
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Master of Landscape ArchitectureDepartment of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Mary Catherine (Katie) Kingery-Page
Restorative landscapes, healing gardens, and therapeutic gardens can improve mental and physical health. They relieve stress, slow us down and make us appreciate the present moment (Kaplan 1995). Research confirms these benefits: “A restorative environment provides measurable physical and/or psychological benefit to human health” (Krinke 2005, 107). Unfortunately, few restorative landscapes are designed for night time use, though stress and the need for healing occur at all hours of the day and night. To that end, the purpose of this research is to create a set of lighting design strategies that will enable designers to create restorative landscapes for nighttime use and demonstrate how they can be applied. A literature review synthesizing the information on healing garden types, outdoor lighting techniques, and their relationship to Attention Restoration Theory, identified four main components required for a space to be considered restorative. Two precedent studies allowed the author to explore the components of Attention Restoration Theory and healing garden types. The lighting principles that afford these four components and healing garden types that are best suited for an urban public space were layered in a final design to create a restorative urban space that is functional at night. The set of design strategies created with the support of this research was applied to Occidental Square, a public park in Seattle, Washington. The applied design strategies are represented and demonstrated through the site design. With these tools in hand, designers can create spaces for those in need of rejuvenation, restoration, and tranquility not only during the day, but also at night.
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Hartman, Jesse G. N. "Therapeutic Spaces For Veterans With PTSD." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1338353523.
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Coelho, Rodolfo Maurício Capeto. "Vivências fragmentadas." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/19878.
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Gutierrez, Josef. "Restorative campus landscapes: fostering education through restoration." Kansas State University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15649.
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Master of Landscape ArchitectureDepartment of Landscape Architecture
Laurence A. Clement, Jr.
Restorative landscapes are a growing trend within health care environments and can have a lasting impact on people if applied within other settings, particularly higher education campuses. Their design captures the many healing qualities of nature that humans are instinctively attracted to (Heerwagen, 2011). Within restorative landscapes, people have been historically found to experience relief of stress, improved morale, and improved overall well-being (Barnes et al., 1999). While campus planning standards do consider the outdoor environment as an extension of the classroom, higher education campuses can do more to utilize the cognitive benefits of nature for students, faculty and staff. This project explores principles and theories of restorative landscape design, empirical psychological research, and campus design to develop a framework that facilitates the creation of restorative campus spaces on higher education campuses. In partnership with the Office of Design and Construction Management at the University of Kansas, the framework was subsequently applied through the design of the landscape for the Center for Design Research on the KU campus. In the context of current campus planning challenges, restorative landscape design is a potentially valuable strategy in strengthening the beneficial roles and efficacy of the campus landscape. This design project explores its application to envision places within a higher education campus that, along with other benefits, relieve stress for students, faculty and staff.
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Skora, Theresa A. "Urban scarification an architectural strategy of healing /." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2010. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
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Nováková, Michaela. "Termální lázně Yverdon, pět smyslů v architektuře." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta architektury, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-216123.
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The theme of two year masters programme was five senses in architecture. The final project is thermal baths in swiss town Yverdon Les Bains, where are currenctly situated baths which do not meet the spa requirements in terms of capacity, operation or eastetics. The aim of the project is not only to design the new spa building, but also to solve miserable situation of the site, to develop the topic of spa in a park, the relationship to the historical buildings of rotunda, hotel and villa Entremont and to solve the spacial organization of the bath house itself, which is both for relaxation and healing. Part of the project is also to expand the accomodation capacity into the new hotel building.
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Alekseeva, Iuliia. "Alternative healing in Berlin : nature, arts and science for human recharge." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-254531.
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Booyzen, Marcelle. "Healing space "education, motivation, integration" youth prison facility." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2004. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02072005-120916.
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Sánchez, Vílchez José Manuel. "Cross-layer self-diagnosis for services over programmable networks." Thesis, Evry, Institut national des télécommunications, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016TELE0012/document.
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Les réseaux actuels servent millions de clients mobiles et ils se caractérisent par équipement hétérogène et protocoles de transport et de gestion hétérogènes, et des outils de gestion verticaux, qui sont très difficiles à intégrer dans leur infrastructure. La gestion de pannes est loin d’être automatisée et intelligent, ou un 40 % des alarmes sont redondantes et seulement un 1 ou 2% des alarmes sont corrélées au plus dans un centre opérationnel. Ça indique qu’il y a un débordement significatif des alarmes vers les adminis-trateurs humains, a comme conséquence un haut OPEX vue la nécessité d’embaucher de personnel expert pour accomplir les tâches de gestion de pannes. Comme conclusion, le niveau actuel d’automatisation dans les tâches de gestion de pannes dans réseaux télécoms n’est pas adéquat du tout pour adresser les réseaux programmables, lesquels promettent la programmation des ressources et la flexibilité afin de réduire le time-to-market des nouveaux services. L’automatisation de la gestion des pannes devient de plus en plus nécessaire avec l’arrivée des réseaux programmables, SDN (Software-Defined Networking), NFV (Network Functions Virtualization) et le Cloud. En effet, ces paradigmes accélèrent la convergence entre les domaines des réseaux et la IT, laquelle accélère de plus en plus la transformation des réseaux télécoms actuels en menant à repenser les opérations de gestion de réseau et des services, en particulier les opérations de gestion de fautes. Cette thèse envisage l’application des principes d’autoréparation en infrastructures basées sur SDN et NFV, en focalisant sur l’autodiagnostic comme facilitateur principal des principes d’autoréparation. Le coeur de cette thèse c’est la conception d’une approche de diagnostic qui soit capable de diagnostiquer de manière continuée les services dynamiques virtualisés et leurs dépendances des ressources virtuels (VNFs et liens virtuels) mais aussi les dépendances de ceux ressources virtuels de la infrastructure physique en-dessous, en prenant en compte la mobilité, la dynamicite, le partage de ressources à l’infrastructure en-dessousCurrent networks serve billions of mobile customer devices. They encompass heterogeneous equipment, transport and manage-ment protocols, and vertical management tools, which are very difficult and costly to integrate. Fault management operations are far from being automated and intelligent, where around 40% of alarms are redundant only around 1-2% of alarms are correlated at most in a medium-size operational center. This indicates that there is a significant alarm overflow for human administrators, which inherently derives in high OPEX due to the increasingly need to employ high-skilled people to perform fault management tasks. In conclusion, the current level of automation in fault management tasks in Telcos networks is not at all adequate for programmable networks, which promise a high degree of programmability and flexibility to reduce the time-to-market. Automation on fault management is more necessary with the advent of programmable networks, led by with SDN (Software-Defined Networking), NFV (Network Functions Virtualization) and the Cloud. Indeed, the arise of those paradigms accelerates the convergence between networks and IT realms, which as consequence, is accelerating faster and faster the transformation of cur-rent networks leading to rethink network and service management and operations, in particular fault management operations. This thesis envisages the application of self-healing principles in SDN and NFV combined infrastructures, by focusing on self-diagnosis tasks as main enabler of self-healing. The core of thesis is to devise a self-diagnosis approach able to diagnose at run-time the dynamic virtualized networking services and their dependencies from the virtualized resources (VNFs and virtual links) but also the dependencies of those virtualized resources from the underlying network infrastructure, taking into account the mobility, dynamicity, and sharing of resources in the underlying infrastructure
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Havelka, Heather Leigh, and Heather Leigh Havelka. "A Built Environment with Architectural Parameters in Sustainability That Mitigates the Onset of PTSD in High Armed Conflict: Physiological, Cognitive, Psychoanalytic, And Social/Behavioral Stimuli to Induce Cognitive Processing for Self-Healing." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626719.
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) was first recognized in veterans of war and called shellshock, and in later years defined by numerous other names. Since 2001 the rate of PTSD within Veterans has increased to the same percentage as that found in the Vietnam War, and I’ve questioned, “what is being done for them on an environmental level”? How is the built environment benefiting them by reducing forms of stimulation that “triggers” or induces unstable behavior? With extensive research the clear answer was that nothing is being done within our built environment, aside from a few guidelines to design to lessen negative impacts. Equally, nothing out in high armed conflict nor in overseas installations that provide rehabilitation care units to wounded warriors are bridging therapy done out there to that done in the United States. The fact is that there is a lack of connection and familiarity with a “sanctity” out in warfare for those with PTSD and this is what inspired this thesis and the innovative design it discusses. A built environment with sustainable architectural parameters will not only allow a “sanctity” to be undetectable and a secure unit for self-rehabilitation as a parallel helper to other forms of therapy for PTSD in conflicted areas, but will equally create an intimacy with the built environment that leads to personal security to enable one to take the necessary steps to continuing rehabilitation after returning home to the United States.
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Merindol, Rémi. "Layer-by-layer assembly of strong bio-inspired nanocomposites." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014STRAE015/document.
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Les performances exceptionnelles des composites naturels comme la nacre ou le bois émergent de l’arrangement précis d’éléments souples et rigides à l’échelle nanométrique. L’assemblage couche-par-couche permet la fabrication de films avec un contrôle nanométrique de l’organisation et de la composition. Ce travail décrit l’assemblage et les propriétés de nouveaux nano-composites contenant des nano-renforts 1-D (fibrilles de cellulose) et 2-D (plaquettes d’argile). Nous avons combiné les argiles avec une matrice extrêmement souple de poly(diméthylsiloxane) dans une architecture lamellaire imitant celle de la nacre. Nous avons étudié des composites à base de fibrilles de cellulose aléatoirement orientées dans le plan, puis alignées dans une direction pour mieux imiter les parois cellulaires du bois. Les propriétés mécaniques de ces composites bio-inspirés égalent ou surpassent celles de leurs homologues naturels, tout en étant transparents et dans certains cas auto-réparantsNatural materials such as nacre or wood gain their exceptional mechanical performances from the precise organisation of rigid and soft components at the nano-scale. Layer-by-layer assembly allows the preparation of films with a nano-scale control over their organisation and composition. This work describes the assembly and properties of new nano-composites containing 1-D (cellulose nano-fibrils) and 2-D (clay nano-platelets) reinforcing elements. The clay platelets were combined with an extremely soft matrix (poly(dimethylsiloxane)) to mimic the lamellar architecture of nacre. Cellulose based composites with a random in plane orientation of the fibrils were studied first, later we aligned the fibrils in a single direction to mimic further the cell wall of wood. The mechanical properties of these bio-inspired composites match or surpass those of their natural counterparts, while being transparent and in one case self-repairing
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Nord, Catharina. "The visible patient. Hybridity and inpatient ward design in a Namibian context." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Infrastructure, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-3671.
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Even if one is confident that the staff provide the bestpossible treatment, being admitted into hospital is still astressful situation. In recent decades, architecturalresearchers have elaborated on aspects of the patient'sperspective where the design of the physical environment maypositively enhance the healing experience. The emergingunderstanding reveals that this is not an issue to be solvedsimply by decorative design, for it entails the spatialinterpretation and integration of broader and deeper facets ofhuman response, within which suffering, empathy andprofessional care are embraced.
This thesis elucidates the patients' use of space accordingto their cultural perceptions in two inpatient wards in aregional hospital in northwestern Namibia. The study appliescase study methodology with the focus on the interactionbetween patients, visitors and nursing staff in relation to thephysical environment.
The theoretical basis within medical anthropologyconceptualises sickness as a cultural event in the dual notionillness and disease, signifying two ways of understandingsickness, the individual and the professional interpretations.The Foucauldian theory on discipline and space suggests thatthe biomedical discipline is spatially represented by themodern hospital, from which aspects of illness areexcluded.
The results show that circumstances in the physicalenvironment highly influence the patients' illness experienceby possessing certain qualities or by the activities renderedpossible by spatial conditions. The two wards possess manymodern qualities adding to an enclosed and restrictingenvironment. Patients come from a culturally dynamic andchanging context where new approaches to healthcare andhospital physical space are generated. Whereas patients haveintegrated hospital-based biomedicine as a medical alternative,modern hospital space cannot accommodate certain patient needs.Patients, visitors and nursing staff negotiate space in orderto overcome spatial weaknesses. Family members' overnightaccommodation in the hospital, as well as their voluntarycontribution to patient care, are two important aspects whichare not spatially incorporated.
An alternative ward design is suggested in which patients'and family members' active participation in the healing processis encouraged, with support from the nursing staff. The higherflexibility the design offers caters for the spatialintegration of future hybrid processes.
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Bell, Britney. "Healing Landscapes: How Landscape Architecture Can Help Facilitate Healing and Well-Being." 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/23967.
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The purpose of this practicum is about an exploration of a new idea of nature and how well design landscapes can help facilitate healing and well-being for people in the urban context and healthcare institution. We live in a time where the city is expanding again and again beyond its limits, slowly taking over the natural landscape that exists beyond its boundaries. As the city continues to grow outwards into the landscape, it also continues to grow inwards, slowly becoming denser; filling the void spaces that exist with additional buildings. Natural landscapes and pockets of green space that have claimed land in the city are always in danger of being taken over by development. The landscape has the potential to create an extension of the hospital through a space for people to pause and connect with nature, while improving quality of life and providing a positive experience for a patient during their time of healing.