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Keegan, John D. "Experiencing Sustainable Architecture". Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36015.
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The prevailing approach to sustainable design focuses on low environmental impact objectives rather than the enhancement of the connection between people and the natural environment. According to Edward O. Wilson, biophilic design attempts to place an emphasis on the human to nature relationship in the built environment under the ideology that we have an innate affinity for the natural world because of our evolutionary development. In order to properly apply biophilic design, it is necessary to study and understand what it is about specific elements in nature that creates a sense of pleasure and well being. Nature is rich with sensual features, and the expression of these biophilic traits in architectural design is really what â sustainable designâ is all about.
The purpose of this thesis is to explore Wilsonâ s theories of biophilic design through the development of an office skyscraper. The driving force behind the project is the design of the sensory oases, which are vertical extensions of the ground plane that contain features intended to stimulate the senses.Master of Architecture
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Cole, Jared B. "Engaging Ecology: Incorporating Nature as an Architectural Imperative". University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1399275943.
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Davidson, Deryn. "Integrating Biophilic Principles and Therapeutic Design Elements in Outdoor Spaces for Children at Tucson Medical Center". The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/294837.
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As concern for the health and wellbeing of children grows in a society geared toward a more sedentary lifestyle, many doctors and therapists are pointing to the importance of access to, and time spent interacting with the natural world. The idea of using the restorative properties of nature in healing has been around since ancient times. There is currently a renaissance in the health care industry looking at the importance of incorporating gardens into the design of health care facilities once again. This project proposes to explore the importance for children in health care facilities to have access to the natural world while using the biophilia hypothesis as a framework for design. Furthermore, the benefits of outdoor areas for the families (particularly siblings) of child patients and the staff of the health care facilities was explored. Through the use of literature and case reviews, data was collected and synthesized to determine the elements best used to strengthen the designs for children’s therapeutic environments. Outcomes include three models of therapeutic environments including focus areas for the Tucson Medical Center campus in Tucson, Arizona.
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DILLON, BRENDAN RUSSELL. "Rebuilding Biophilia". University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1212599868.
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Fischl, Geza. "Biophilic Living : A Behavior Responsive Architecture". Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-133149.
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Leakas, Diana. "Biophilia in Designing". University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1218652944.
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Nichols, Brent. "Poiana: A Biophilic Balance (A proposal for biophilic consideration during design & development in the ruralcountryside of Romania)". University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1522340165314535.
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Rossi, Maria Alejandra. "Biophilic Design: Transitional Housing for Homeless Veterans". Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78904.
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Biophilia: the close relationship between architecture and nature. In my thesis, I look to embrace that relationship by designing housing for homeless veterans. For veterans, this connection helps the space become a place of healing and reconnection to nature, which is proven to have a positive impact in our health and wellness. The building becomes a container of nature, where the presence of green features and natural elements are present from the moment you come into the building, the choice of materials, the different activities and position of the spaces to welcome the most amount of natural elements into the building. This creates an indoor/outdoor environment where the resident feels secure by the walls but also welcome by nature.
The building captures nature through different activities and moments, where both nature and architecture work together to create a space of healing and peace, a place of freedom, but at the same time a place of security and stability. An oasis in the city, which helps homeless veterans start over and create a space they can call home. The building is equipped to offer different activities and purposes not only for the residents, but also for the employees and visitors. The building becomes a welcoming space for the neighbors but also for nature. The building welcomes different species and promotes the creation of different habitats that can serve the growth of the ecosystem.Master of Architecture
How can Architecture and Nature work together to create healing spaces? The purpose of this thesis was to study the relationship between nature and architecture. Today, rapid growth in cities and urbanization has cause these two to be seen as separate or different, creating spaces that do not promote human well-being and healthy spaces. When in fact, when both nature and architecture work together, it creates the best and healthiest spaces for human health, performance and well-being. In this project, I focused on creating healing spaces for homeless veterans; a group that is increasing in number in large cities such as Washington D.C. Veterans are falling into homelessness due to Post-traumatic stress disorder, making it hard for them to adapt back into their normal life. Many of them live in poor conditions on the street, shelters and cars; spaces that are not suitable for people living with this disorder. Instead, I am proposing a transitional housing project where they will be trained, offered job opportunities, and a space where they will in constant presence of nature from the moment they walk into the building until they get to their room. This is because biophilic design has proven to improve the perfomance, quality of life, and health of humans. The residents of this project will have an efficient building with communal spaces, spaces for active and passive recreation, and different connections to nature to improve and expedite their healing.
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Scanlon, Teague. "Facilitating Experience through Fabrication and Blue Biophilic Design". Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/214.
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The way humans currently interact with the atmosphere and oceans around us is unsustainable, with pollution entering our waters faster than we are collecting it, and the sea level rising faster than we are building coastal barriers to protect our current infrastructure. This thesis explores the common methodology for communicating climate change and its future effects, and highlights an opportunity for using infrastructure to facilitate interaction with the urban-aquatic interface. By promoting experiential contact with the natural spaces that are most at risk to climate change’s impacts, a sense of stewardship for those spaces will spur behavioral change and activism. On a local level, this thesis explores the history of public access to San Onofre State Beach, and the possibility for the restriction of that access in 2021. Using a 3D topographic and bathymetric model of San Onofre State Beach, I attempt to highlight the beauty of the undeveloped California coastline, and the benefits of keeping this 6.5-mile coastline within the State Parks system.
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Young, Jessalyn Ann. "Biophilia getting intimate with nature /". Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2008. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=ucin1212164966.
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Thesis (Master of Architecture)--University of Cincinnati, 2008.Committee/Advisors: Vincent Sansalone (Committee Chair), Tom Bible (Committee Co-Chair). Title from electronic theses title page (viewed Sep. 2, 2008). Includes abstract. Keywords: biophilia; sustainability; cincinnati; residential; architecture. Includes bibliographical references.
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YOUNG, JESSALYN ANN. "Biophilia: Getting Intimate with Nature". University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1212164966.
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Ghersinich, Elin. "The Spirit of Things, Biophilic Light in Urban Environments". Thesis, KTH, Ljusdesign, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-297654.
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This thesis looks to human biophilic response to natural environments, seeking to uncover methods to aid human health and well-being in urban environments. Light is explored as a source of soft fascination and as a tool to support cognition based on attention restoration theory and mind-wandering. Its biophilic potential is primarily linked to the direct visual experience of light itself but also to the ability of light to influence spatial perception. This forms the theoretical basis for a lighting design concept for an underground subway station in Stockholm. The concept draws inspiration directly from dappled light pattern found in nature which is translated for the urban environment. To contextualize the concept and its underlying theory it is related to a selection of project examples. Evaluation and analysis of the examples is used to define and point out an existing tradition of biophilic lighting design.
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Kelly, Stephanie. "Didactic garden : our return to biophilia". Diss., University of Pretoria, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60182.
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Colley, Jennifer. "Patterns of Biophilia for Urban Senior Living". University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427898583.
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Grimaldi, Jordan. "The Living Community Challenge: An unCase Study in Biophilic Master Planning". Scholarship @ Claremont, 2020. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/219.
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In a world that is quickly urbanizing with a climate that is rapidly changing, the International Living Future Institute’s (ILFI) Living Community Challenge (LCC) offers a whimsical yet highly relevant model for sustainable development—creating cities that are as connected and beautiful as forests. As no certified Living Community exists yet, this thesis serves as an “uncase study” of North Rainier, a neighborhood in Seattle that has registered for the Challenge. In an effort to assess the LCC’s perceived effectiveness as a model for sustainable development, this thesis first summarizes nearly 400 centuries of U.S. developmental history to give greater context to the current moment and how we can quickly, effectively, and fundamentally transform the built environment to support a more sustainable future. A comparative analysis with EcoDistricts and LEED for Neighborhood Development revealed strengths (i.e., advocacy and capacity building) and weaknesses (i.e., equity and stasis) of predominant urban assessment tools in the U.S. The case study then uses a combination of GIS analysis, community surveys, and semi-structured interviews with members of the neighborhood association overseeing the pursuit of the LCC in North Rainier as well as with staff members at ILFI to assess the LCC’s effectiveness. Environmental health disparities in North Rainier found within the GIS analysis were echoed in the surveys and interviews, which indicated feelings of neglect from the city of Seattle who is occupied with record-setting growth, demonstrates how the LCC can be considered as an “act of optimism” and as a rejection of historically imposed top-down planning. Overall, in theory, several of the LCC’s Petals address many of the systemic issues facing the built environment (i.e., sprawl and dependence on automobiles and fossil fuels). However, despite its vision for a socially just and culturally rich future, the LCC—specifically the Equity Petal—does not offer a guarantee that displacement of low-income and communities of color and/or environmental injustices will not be perpetuated.
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Kahl, Sarah Michelle. "Biophilic Architecture, Connectedness to Nature, and the Importance of Environmental Issues". Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1498176149901461.
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Alencar, Tatiana Abaurre. "Biophilic design framework : structuring the relationship between exposure to nature and health benefits". Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44162.
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The research presented in this thesis addresses the need to incorporate strategies that promote human nature connection into everyday life in order to support the inhabitant’s health and well-being and promote pro-environmental behavior. Moreover, this thesis addresses the need to create a built environment that acknowledges and responds to the stressors associated with modern lifestyle that are reinforced by a disconnection from nature. This idea is grounded in the increasing scientific evidence that supports the use of strategies for connection to nature as a way of promoting restoration possibilities and reducing demands imposed by the environment, in order to promote and maintain psychological and physiological health.
Although progress has been made towards understanding how to implement biophilic design into current architectural practice, this research addresses the existing need for structure within the biophilic design strategies regarding their relationship to health and well-being benefits. In this way, a framework was developed to reorganize and restructure the biophilic design strategies according to their potential for health, while accounting for the relationship between these strategies and the influencing qualitative aspects that were identified within the literature: exposure and inhabitant’s needs. The proposed framework builds on the existing strategies provided by the field of biophilic design while restructuring them to provide a new dimension of understanding based on the theoretical fields of environmental preference and psychological restoration.
In this way, this thesis provides a useful way to begin to explore and discuss the types of nature exposures and experiences that will support our need for a healthy life. This framework can be seen as a step towards providing initial guidance for designers by focusing attention on the crucial aspects of the nature-health relationship.
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Booher, Susan G. "Investigation of Biophilic Interventions to Improve Mood and Behavior of Persons with Dementia". The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu159759291788336.
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Meltzer, Nathan W. "An investigation of the effect of an outdoor orientation program on participants' biophilic expressions". Thesis, Prescott College, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1557883.
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This exploratory study investigated the effect of a twenty-one day outdoor orientation program (OOP) on participants' relationships with the natural world, as understood via the lens of biophilia. The primary research question was "Does the Prescott College New Student Orientation have an effect on participants' biophilic profiles, as measured by the Kellert-Shorb Biophilic Values Indicator (KSBVI)?" Biophilic profiles were calculated pre and post with the KSBVI, a 99-question survey that shows survey-takers' expressions of each of the nine biophilic responses at a specific moment in time. The KSBVI was administered to instructors and participants prior to the trip and to participants on the last day in the field; instructors also completed a questionnaire about the curriculum implemented. Correlation analyses showed highly stable biophilic expressions over time, and paired-sample t-tests showed changed on 8 of the 9 KSBVI subscales. Alpha tests indicated that the KSBVI had acceptable reliability as a whole, however the aesthetic and symbolic subscales showed poor reliability. The KSBVI was determined to be a promising tool for understanding how OOP and WEP participants relate to the natural world through the lens of biophilia, however further research is warranted to better understand the KSBVI's strengths and limitations. This research determined that participation on this OOP may have influenced change in these participants' relationships with the natural world, with strong evidence for the impact of the curriculum on type and amount of change in biophilic expression.
Keywords: biophilia, adventure education (AE), outdoor orientation program (OOP), Kellert-Shorb Biophilic Values Indicator (KSBVI), Wilderness Experience Program (WEP)
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Hasse, John W. "Biophilic Design at Pomona College: An Analysis of the New Sontag and Pomona Residence Halls". Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/46.
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The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for New Construction (or LEED-NC) has become one of the most commonly used green building standards during the turn of the 21st century. While many champion LEED-NC, certain architects and academics believe that its low-environmental impact design approach toward green building isolates people from nature and thus cannot achieve sustainable development over the long-term. Pomona College’s green buildings, including its newest LEED Platinum certified Sontag and Pomona Residence Halls, exemplify this fact, as their designs fail to communicate their sustainable goals or inspire sustainable behavior. By examining the LEED-NC standards, the history of environmental conservation, Modern architecture, biophilia, and the Living Building Challenge, this thesis seeks to provide recommendations for how Pomona College can alter its existing green buildings as well as improve its green building policies for future projects so that its built environment better fosters positive human-nature interactions.
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Mirbagheri, Mahsa. "Urban cemetery biophilic integration for human well-being : an applied case study of Tehran, Iran". Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/671834.
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Cemeteries are an ancient reality, and while their basic function has not changed, their physical layout as well as the symbolic and emotional role within our societies has undergone profound transformations over time. The Oxford dictionary literally defines cemetery as “A large burial ground”. The meaning in the American heritage dictionary is similar: “A place for burying the dead.” The definitions of cemetery in both dictionaries significantly mentions the dead and dark side of these spaces. Not only these definitions but also modern zoning legislation on cemeteries deny their role as urban open public green spaces and their potential to contribute to human well-being. Decisions about cemeteries segregation follow two-dimensional land-use urban planning, without considering their relationships with other urban spaces and without a real understanding of human behavior. The usual process of urban development treats cemeteries as isolated singular function urban spaces, not as part of larger urban fabrics. This vision leads to the appearance of urban spaces without any urban design qualities.
This research was conceived to investigate the main process of urban cemeteries integration with cities and human daily life by biophilic approaches (based on Iran as a case study). It has the potential to make an important contribution to both academic research and planning decisions on the roles of urban cemeteries in cities and their response to human well-being. The thesis is based on two literature review parts concerning urban design assessment and biophilic applied methods. It highlights the necessity of intervention at different scales (urban planning, urban design, architecture, and landscape design) in order to develop an integration process of cemeteries. The case study of Tehran and references to international cases lead to address the general strategies and guides of this process in detail.Los cementerios son una realidad antigua, y aunque su función básica no ha cambiado, su configuración física, así como su papel simbólico y emocional, ha sufrido profundas transformaciones a lo largo del tiempo. El diccionario de Oxford define literalmente cementerio como "un amplio espacio de entierro". El significado en el diccionario Americano es similar: "Un lugar para enterrar los muertos". Estas definiciones de cementerio en ambos diccionarios mencionan de forma significativa los muertos y su lado más sombrío. No sólo estas definiciones, sino también la zonificación urbanística moderna de los cementerios, niegan su papel como espacios públicos abiertos verdes y su potencial para contribuir al bienestar humano. La segregación de cementerios responde a planeamientos urbanísticos en dos dimensiones, sin tener en consideración sus relaciones con otros espacios urbanos y sin una comprensión real de los comportamientos humanos. El proceso habitual de desarrollo urbano trata los cementerios como espacios urbanos con una función singular aislada, no como parte de tejidos urbanos más amplios. Esta visión conduce a la aparición de espacios urbanos sin ninguna calidad de diseño. La presente investigación ha sido concebida para ahondar en el proceso de integración de los cementerios urbanos con las ciudades y la vida cotidiana de los ciudadanos siguiendo un enfoque biofílico (a través del caso de estudio de Irán). Este estudio puede contribuir tanto a la investigación académica como a la toma de decisiones de planeamiento en relación con el papel de los cementerios urbanos en las ciudades y su respuesta al bienestar humano. La tesis se basa en dos partes de revisión bibliográfica relativas a la evaluación de cementerios existentes en términos de diseño urbano y a la aplicación de métodos aplicados biofílicos. Pone de manifiesto la necesidad de intervenir a diferentes escalas (planeamiento, diseño urbano, arquitectura y paisajismo) con el fin de desarrollar el proceso de integración de los cementerios. El caso de estudio de Tehran y las referencias a casos internacionales conducen a formular estrategias generales y pautas para detallar este proceso
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Burgess, Donald James. "Listening to children : perceptions of nature and biophilia at Mountain Explorations". Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11245.
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Biophilia provides a critical framework to assess the themes and impacts of an environmental education program. The intent of this exploratory study is to investigate children’s perceptions and experiences of nature during a residential outdoor environmental education program. The study intends to contribute to an understanding of how nature experiences arouse biophilia (love of life and living things). Using qualitative interviews, naturalistic observation and artifact collection, I studied children’s responses to nature during and following their participation in a residential environmental education program known as Mountain Explorations. I explored how biophilia can help researchers and educators focus on the vital intersection between individual, environment and action. Since biophilia demands a consideration of what it means to include the larger biotic community in our discussion of educational reform, this research will contribute to our evolving understanding of the relationship between people and the natural world.
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Green, Tuwanda Lee. "Healthy by Design: Development of a Biophilia Design Decision Support Framework". Diss., Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/103279.
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Scholars widely accept that the well-documented benefits of biophilia–the human being's strong urge to connect with nature–are genuine to improved health. Then why, with the global acceptance and scientific validity of wellness design concepts, do architects not use this beneficial concept regularly–especially when designing isolated workspaces? This qualitative research explores architecture's current design decision process to better understand this design phenomenon, and to identify where architectural biophilic knowledge domains may be deficient. This study explores questions such as: Does the architect's lack of biophilic knowledge and/or structured wellness design decision support framework affect the decision? Would the existence of a wellness design tool better support the design decision? An explanatory case study using a purposeful study sample of architects, biophilia design experts, and associated specialists is used to develop design decision support frameworks. Level 1 establishes a propositional theory derived from the literature and professional experience, level 2 from architect interviews and observational meetings, and level 3 from a Delphi workgroup session. Framework evolutions help identify design-phase-specific knowledge gaps. This study finds that a deficiency in early exposure to a priori, explicit and tacit biophilic knowledge is creating a critical gap, thus diminishing a posteriori biophilic knowledge and research in the architecture profession. This study asserts that early exposure to biophilic theories and principles can enhance the profession and provide a knowledge bridge using an informed biophilia design support framework with a proposed biophilia project management tool.Doctor of Philosophy
Few will dispute that the well-documented benefits of biophilia–the human being's strong urge to connect with nature–are genuine to improved health. Then why, with the global acceptance and scientific validity of wellness design concepts, do architects not use this beneficial concept regularly–especially when designing windowless workspaces? A qualitative explanatory case study using a purposeful study sample of architects, biophilia design experts, and associated specialists was used to develop a design decision support framework that evolved from level 1-3. Framework progressions helped identify specific knowledge gaps in each design phase. This study found that a deficiency in early exposure to a priori, explicit and tacit biophilic knowledge is creating a critical gap, thus diminishing a posteriori biophilic knowledge and research in the architecture profession. This study asserts that early exposure to biophilic theories and principles can enhance the profession and provide a knowledge bridge using an informed biophilia design decision support framework with a proposed biophilia project management tool.
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Marantz, Yael. "A structural approach to reimagining community: biomimicry, biophilia and living labs". Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27444.
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The global economic operating system of capitalism is incongruent with the values required to sustain life on a planet with a growing population and finite resources. Living in marginalized communities the impoverished are the most negatively affected by the current system, as they are the most vulnerable to the vicissitudes of climate change, resource extraction, labor exploitation and wealth concentration. Our way of life needs to be reimagined to align with principles that are in accordance with the ecological worldview. Aspects of an effective strategy rooted in the ecological worldview - especially Biomimicry, Biophilia and a Living Labs approach - are being created in silos but lack application at a systems level. The objective of this research is to bridge the disparate streams of these concepts into a community-based model, with the aim of replicating the emergent system in order to build alternatives to the current model. The research question to explored is the following: how can the principles of Biomimicry, Biophilia, and Living Labs be integrated and systemically applied in communities? Investigating this question will bring forth the Principles for Transition Infrastructure - an approach to building a resilient, self-sustaining, regenerative model for an alternative way of living. This research concludes that there is an opportunity to dismantle the mechanistic worldview of isolating problems in silos and rather observe the multiple points of interconnectivity that weave together a solution that transcends the parts of the whole. In doing this, we draw from multiple disciplines and find the synergies to construct a reality that is conducive to building new systems and structures to support a harmonious life on this planet.
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Ridder, Nicole. "Cultivating the City: Establishing the Presence of Nature in Urban Architecture". University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1522342247782963.
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Myers, Mary Grace. "VISUAL ART AS A RESTORATIVE, PLACED-BASED BIOPHILIC COPING MECHANISM IN THE WORKPLACE: A CASE STUDY". Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1584542718938814.
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Aggerstam, Madeleine. "Jordens poesi : Biophilia-hypotesen som ekokritisk läsning av Wordsworth, Coleridge och Keats". Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-85770.
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Lumber, Ryan. "Contact, emotion, meaning, compassion, and beauty as pathways to nature connectedness". Thesis, University of Derby, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10545/621530.
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Colunga, Carlos Tameo. "Housing in the City". Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/102265.
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As the population grows we will continue to be challenged to meet the high demand for housing in our growing cities. As we strive to meet this demand it is important that we fulfill these needs in a manner that supports human health and well being by providing the inhabitants with access to the outdoors and Biophilic experiences.
I will attempt to address these issues through the design of a mixed use housing complex that provides readily assessable private outdoor spaces to all its inhabitants while responding to unique site conditions that support the existing urban fabric of its surroundings.Master of Architecture
As the population grows we will continue to be challenged to meet the high demand for housing in our growing cities. As we strive to meet this demand it is important that we fulfill these needs in a manner that supports human health and well being by providing the inhabitants with access to the outdoors and experiences with nature. I will attempt to address these issues through the design of a mixed use housing complex that provides readily assessable private outdoor spaces to all its inhabitants while responding to unique site conditions that support the existing urban fabric of its surroundings.
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Thompson, Amanda D. "Restoration Retreat: A Sanctuary for Rehabilitation of the Post-Deployment Family". University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1307106013.
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Adler, Adrian. "Erich Fromm's analytic social psychology : testing the relationships among cooperation, aggression and trait biophilia". Thesis, University of Leicester, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/7513.
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Erich Fromm’s biophilia, a theory of personality development incorporating an interaction between existential needs and the socio-economic environment, was a significant element of Fromm’s proposed Analytic Social Psychology. Despite an enduring influence, Fromm’s theory of biophilia has been largely untested in the literature. Fromm argued that biophilia was the optimum way to conceptualise malignant aggression, and that the introduction and reward of cooperation was the best way to increase levels of biophilia, and thereby reduce levels of destructive behaviour in a population. It was the aim of this thesis to investigate whether the introduction and reward of cooperation would increase biophilia, and decrease aggression, in a population. In Studies One to Six, a trait biophilia scale was developed and psychometric validity and reliability established. In Studies Seven to Nine, scale predictive validity in comparison to existing trait measures was investigated in theoretically appropriate areas including online behaviour, positive psychology and pro-environmental behaviour. In Study Ten, a game theory paradigm for introducing and rewarding cooperation was developed, and the relationships among biophilia, cooperation and aggression were investigated. Contrary to Fromm’s theory, a positive association between aggression and cooperation, and negative associations between those and biophilia, were found. In addition, the effects of introducing and rewarding cooperation were investigated, and again contrary to Fromm’s theory, introducing and rewarding cooperation produced an increase in aggression and a reduction in biophilia. These findings may reflect an inherent tension within Fromm’s theory between the use of existential needs, that were argued to be the product of competitive natural selection, and the use of cooperative interventions derived from Marxist theory. It is proposed that the relationships among biophilia, cooperation and aggression may be mediated by frustration. Implications for interventions and future research are discussed.
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Xia, Xinyu. "Greenery @ Home : Design for sustainable house planting solutions". Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för design (DE), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-54338.
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This report aims to discusse how to create more sustainable indoor greenery that can make benefit for people’s health and well-being. The accounts for sustainability in this project has three layers, which are design for people’s sustainable life (people’s health and well-being), design for sustainable indoor greenery and principles of sustainable design. The question I come up with in this project is “what is the sustainable relationship between people and indoor greenery”. The assumption I hope to challenge with my project is how to create a sustainable solution for house planting to bring back the nature into the daily experiences of city inhabitants by product design. As a result, people could have more sustainable and healthier life at home through living with nature in the urban settings. The content of this report demonstrates the whole steps (background and motivation, contexts, research, ideal generation, sketch and prototype, model making and visualization of results) towards the design results supported by theoretical studies. The relevant studies I mention in this project are biophilic design, permaculture and NASA clean air study, which are related to sustainable indoor greenery and sustainable house planting relatively. The results obtained in this project include one product design - a planter that offers a sustainable way of cultivating health plants at home through reusing water and designing micro forest garden, and one product-based App design proposal - creating a house-planting community, in which people can communicate and support each other with sustainable house-planting tips and knowledge.
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Rademeyer, Leani. "A skincare servicescape for Margaret Roberts : biomimicry and biophilia as a model and mentor for design". Diss., University of Pretoria, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60196.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
The ever-increasing nature of consumer demands has forced retailers to adopt 'added value' strategies to ensure their competitive edge in the market. Branding is considered a market differentiator, but alone is not enough to convince consumers to make a purchase. Consumers want more. Trends in the contemporary retail industry show that retail sustainability and retail experience design are two of the most successful added value strategies employed.
This brings forth the issue of the retail sector's resource intensive and wasteful nature. Natural resources are used to produce everything from products and packaging to the physical retail space including the architectural structure, interior finishes and fittings, all for it to be demolished and discarded as waste at the end of its life cycle.
This dissertation explores the value of nature as a model and mentor in the realm of retail design, particularly through application of Biomimetic and Biophilic design theories. Biomimicry is used as a design tool for developing a sustainable retail servicescape that emulates nature's resource efficient and zero-waste principles. Biophilic design strategies are employed towards the development of an in-store retail experience inspired by nature.
Margaret Roberts; a well renowned South African herbalist - specialising in the art of healing with medicinal herbs, is the 'client' for this study. The proposed design intervention is the creation of a skincare servicescape for Margaret Roberts that integrates Biomimicry and Biophilia as an added value strategy.Die immer veranderende aptyt van verbruikers het handelelaars genoop om tradisionele verkoopsdenke te verander en aan te pas ten einde te verseker dat "toegevoegde waarde " ontsluit word in 'n streng kompeterende mark. 'n Handelsmerk word beskou as 'n wesenlikke onderskeier maar is opsigself nie voldoende om verbruikers te oortuig om die produk te bekom nie. Verbruikers verlang meer as dit. Tendense in die kontempor?re verkoops-industrie dui op kleinhandel-volhoubaarheid asook kleinhandel-ontwerp "ondervinding" as twee van die meer suksesvolle strategie? om waarde te ontsluit. Dit plaas die kleinhandel sektor se ho? hulpbron verbruik en vermorsing onder die vergrootglas. Natuurlikke hulpbronne word gebruik, nie net vir die produksie van produkte nie maar ook vir die vervaardiging van verpakking, fisiese handelruimte oprigting insluitende argitektoniese struktuur, binnehuise versierings asook bybehore. Alles net om aan die einde van hul bruikbaarheidslewe afgebreek en weggegooi te word - 'n wesenlikke vermorsing. Hierdie skrywe ondersoek die rol van die natuur as model en mentor in Handelsontwerp met die fokus op die toepassing van Biomimetic en Biophilic ontwerpsbeginsels. Biomimicry word aangewend as 'n ontwerpsinstrument in die ontwikkelling van volhoubaarheids Handels en Dienste-ontwerp wat doeltreffendheid en zero-vermorsing beginsels van die natuur najaag. Biophilic ontwerpsbeginsels word terselfde tyd ook aangewend om die aankoopondervinding in die handelsruimte te ontwikkel en verbeter volgens natuur-geinspireerde beginsels. Margaret Roberts, 'n vernaamde Suid Afrikaanse kruiedeskundige wat spesialiseer in kruiemedisyne, is die kli?nt vir hierdie studie. Die voorgestelde ontwerp is 'n toegepaste handelsruimte vir Margaret Roberts waar Biomimicry en Biomimetic beginsels ingespan word teneinde toegevoegde waarde te ontsluit.
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Scholtz, Jeandri. "Hybrid : a new interface between the City of Pretoria and Berea park". Diss., University of Pretoria, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60203.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
The modern day mechanical integration
and organisation of cities have disturbed
the natural systems and sequences of
the environment, as well as the social
fabric and collective notions of society
within cities (Mumford, 1938:17). Man's
progressive "liberation" from the natural
environment has desensitised him to
nature (Crowe, 1995:233) creating an
artifi cial realm where man is removed
from nature.
Pretoria's establishment was greatly
infl uenced by its landscape - aptly
called "the valley between the ridges
and the rivers" (Dippenaar, 2013:6).
Urban modernisation and infrastructure
development have however progressively
disregarded the river and the landscape
within the city, consequently detaching
the city from these natural elements,
which resulted in the loss of their
signifi cance.
As one of the last remaining
underdeveloped sites in the inner city
of Pretoria, Berea Park represents a
continuation of the landscape and the
Apies River channel into the city. Situated
at the southern gateway of the city,
Berea Park was Pretoria's fi rst offi cial
recreational, social and cultural venue,
hosting numerous sport, outdoor and
other events. Unfortunately Berea Park
is currently in a derelict and idle state.
Infrastructural developments have
gradually disconnected the site from the
surrounding city fabric and community.
The isolated and forgotten park, has
like the river, tragically lost its essential
signifi cance. The divide between the city fabric,
the Apies River channel and the
Berea Park landscape presents the
opportunity to explore architecture's
role in re-integrating and connecting
experiences of "nature" into the city to
enhance the quality of urban life.
This dissertation explores architecture
and the hybrid typology of "building as
a landscape", as a means to create a
new topography and interface between
the Berea Park landscape, river
channel and the city. The concept of
a hybrid architecture that merges the
typologies of urban park, landscape,
infrastructure, public amenity and
building is explored with the intention
to develop a new typology that can
respond to the contextual challenges.
The building becomes an extension
of the park, and the park becomes
an extension of the building. The new
interface, proposed programme and
activities are aimed at linking the
city, its inhabitants, communities, the
landscape and the river.Die hedendaagse meganiese integrasie en organisasie van stede het die natuurlike sisteme en ritmes van die omgewing, asook die sosiale strukture en kollektiewe opvattings van gemeenskappe in stede versteur (Mumford, 1038:17). Die mens se progressiewe "bevryding" van die natuurlike omgewing het gelei tot 'n skeiding tussen die mens en die natuur (Crowe, 2013:6), wat der volglik ? kunsmatige domein waarbinne die mensdom uit die natuurverwyder is, geskep het. Die totstandkoming van Pretoria was grootliks be?nvloed deur sy natuurlike landskap - met die gepaste benaming van " 'n vallei gele? tussen rante en riviere" (Dippenaar, 2013:6). Met stedelike modernisering en infrastruktuur ontwikkeling is daar stelselmatig minder ag geslaan op die rivier en die omliggende stadslandskap, wat daartoe gelei het dat die stad van die natuurlike omgewing afgesonder geraak het en uiteindelik het dit die verlies van die essensi?le betekenis en waarde van die natuurelemente veroorsaak. Berea Park, een van die laaste oorblywende onderontwikkelde terreine in die sentrale stadsgebied van Pretoria, is gele? aan die suidelike ingang van die stad en verteenwoordig 'n verlenging van die landskap en die Apiesrivierkanaal na die stad. Di? terrein was Pretoria se eerste amptelike ontspannings-, sosiale en kulturele byeenkomsplek, wat sport-, buitelugen ander byeenkomste aangebied het. Ongelukking is Bera Park tans 'n verlate, verwaarloosde en onbenutte area. Infrastruktuur ontwikkeling van di? gebied het geleidelik die terrein afgesonder van die omliggende stad en gemeenskap. Die ge?soleerde en vergete park het, soos die rivier, tragies geen betekenis of nut meer nie. Die skeiding tussen die stedelike bouomgewing, die Apiesrivierkanaal en die landskap van Berea Park bied die geleentheid om argitektuur se rol met betrekking tot die herintegrering en verbinding van die "natuur" met die stad te ondersoek derhalwe die gehalte van 'n stedelike lewenswyse te verhoog. Die skripsie ondersoek argitektuur en die hibriede tipologie van 'n gebou as 'n landskap, wat deur die fasilitering van 'n nuwe topografi e 'n interaktiewe verbinding tussen die landskap van Berea Park, die rivierkanaal en die stad tot stand kan bring. Hibriede-argitektuur is 'n konsep wat die samesmelting van die tipologie? van stedelike park, landskap, infrastruktuur, openbare fasiliteit en gebou ondersoek met die doel om 'n nuwe tipologie te ontwikkel wat kontekstuele uitdagings kan aanspreek. Die gebou word 'n uitbreiding van die park en die park word 'n uitbreiding van die gebou. Die doelwit van die gebou as nuwe interaktiewe verbinding en die voorgestelde program en aktiwiteite, is om die stad se inwoners, gemeenskappe, die landskap en die rivier te herverbind.
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Santos, Vera Lúcia dos [UNESP]. "Além do rural: os vínculos topo-biofílicos na interação visitantes e paisagem rural em Itu - SP". Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/104330.
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A presente pesquisa tem como preocupação principal compreender as manifestações topo-biofílicas que ocorrem na interação visitantes e paisagem rural, tendo como área de estudo três propriedades rurais no município de Itu/SP, sendo as seguintes: Fazenda do Chocolate, Camping e Pousada Fazenda das Pedras e Fazenda Pirahy. Duas questões permearam seu desenvolvimento: Há um vínculo que motiva as pessoas a ter contato com áreas ditas naturais, em especial, as paisagens rurais? Se há esse vínculo, como compreendê-lo? Para tanto se adotou a pesquisa qualitativa e a análise categorial, identificando que os motivos pela escolha do campo estão impregnados de topofilia - elo afetivo entre as pessoas e os lugares físicos, e biofilia - afetividade emocional inata dos seres humanos para com as demais espécies. A pesquisa também conclui que memes - unidade básica promotora da replicação cultural humana, relacionados à paisagem rural como algo mítico e natural, tiveram sucesso como replicadores na conduta humana relacionada ao campo.
The main concern of this research is to understand the topobiophilia manifestations that occur in the interaction between visitors and rural landscape. They were studied on three farms located in Itu city, São Paulo State - Fazenda do Chocolate, Camping e Pousada Fazenda das Pedras and Fazenda Pirahy. Two questions permeated its development : Is there a bond motivating people to be in contact with areas considered as natural ones, particularly, rural settings? If there is, how to comprehend it? For that, qualitative research and category analysis were accomplished, pointing out that the reasons for choosing rural landscapes are full of topophilia - affective bond between people and physical settings, and biophilia - emotional affectiveness innate to human beings towards the other species. This research also concludes that memes - basic unit for human cultural multiplication - related to rural setting as something mythical and natural had success as replicants on human behavior towars country areas.
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Santos, Vera Lúcia dos. "Além do rural : os vínculos topo-biofílicos na interação visitantes e paisagem rural em Itu - SP /". Rio Claro : [s.n.], 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/104330.
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Orientador: Lucy Marion Calderini Philadelpho MachadoBanca: Angelo Martins de Souza Junior
Banca: Helmut Troppmair
Banca: Marlene Teresinha de Muno Colesanti
Banca: Marta Felícia Marujo Ferreira
Resumo: A presente pesquisa tem como preocupação principal compreender as manifestações topo-biofílicas que ocorrem na interação visitantes e paisagem rural, tendo como área de estudo três propriedades rurais no município de Itu/SP, sendo as seguintes: Fazenda do Chocolate, Camping e Pousada Fazenda das Pedras e Fazenda Pirahy. Duas questões permearam seu desenvolvimento: "Há um vínculo que motiva as pessoas a ter contato com áreas ditas naturais, em especial, as paisagens rurais? Se há esse vínculo, como compreendê-lo?" Para tanto se adotou a pesquisa qualitativa e a análise categorial, identificando que os motivos pela escolha do campo estão impregnados de topofilia - elo afetivo entre as pessoas e os lugares físicos, e biofilia - afetividade emocional inata dos seres humanos para com as demais espécies. A pesquisa também conclui que memes - unidade básica promotora da replicação cultural humana, relacionados à paisagem rural como algo mítico e natural, tiveram sucesso como replicadores na conduta humana relacionada ao campo.
Abstract: The main concern of this research is to understand the topobiophilia manifestations that occur in the interaction between visitors and rural landscape. They were studied on three farms located in Itu city, São Paulo State - Fazenda do Chocolate, Camping e Pousada Fazenda das Pedras and Fazenda Pirahy. Two questions permeated its development : "Is there a bond motivating people to be in contact with areas considered as natural ones, particularly, rural settings? If there is, how to comprehend it?" For that, qualitative research and category analysis were accomplished, pointing out that the reasons for choosing rural landscapes are full of topophilia - affective bond between people and physical settings, and biophilia - emotional affectiveness innate to human beings towards the other species. This research also concludes that memes - basic unit for human cultural multiplication - related to rural setting as something mythical and natural had success as replicants on human behavior towars country areas.
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Reed, Jackson Alexander. "Prophylactic Architecture". Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/100285.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
Biophilia, the affinity humans have for nature, has been widely demonstrated to manifest both physiological and psychological benefits in those who are exposed to natural settings. By incorporating such elements in architecture, biophilic design has been put forth as a remedy to many of the health concerns associated with urban environments. However, most of the focus has been on treatment rather than prevention, leaving the root causes unaddressed.
This thesis aims to reorient the focus toward the proactive use of biophilic design to promote well-being and avert the onset of these issues. Design principles draw from the theory of Salutogenesis, which employs elements of Psychologically Supportive Design (PSD) and Attention Restoration Theory (ART) to promote physical, mental, and emotional well-being. This approach contrasts and augments the concept of Pathogenesis, the focus on resultant illnesses and disease that defines the current healthcare paradigm. If biophilia is salutogenic (i.e. generates health), this thesis postulates that such architecture will also act as a prophylaxis, or preventative medicine.
To evaluate the potential efficacy of various biophilic strategies, an IRB-approved research study has been designed to gather qualitative and quantitative responses from individuals viewing alternative design proposals. Rather than putting forth a hypothesis to be supported, the project centers on a thesis proposition to be explored through an inductive process of seeking emergent theories. With funding from the American Institute of Architects through the AIAS Crit Scholar Program, design alternatives were developed and presented in Virtual Reality to individuals associated with a local organization, Community Health Center of the New River Valley. While the results presented are neither prescriptive nor universally generalizable, findings are relevant in both the context of healthcare and across building types.Master of Architecture
In recent decades, designers and researchers alike have sought to understand what people have intuitively known for millennia – namely, that humans possess an innate affinity for nature, which can improve our physical and psychological health and well-being. The theory of biophilia, first popularized in 1984 by Edward O. Wilson, has framed this concept with the hypothesis that "Natural environments have a restorative advantage over artificial environments due to the role they played in our evolution as a species." Since then, countless studies have supported this claim, with far-reaching implications and opportunities. As more and more people move to cities, health crises have escalated dramatically, with urban environments tied to increased stress, anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, and memory disorders. As the world continues to urbanize, designers face a growing imperative to create spaces that are conducive to health and wellness. Biophilic design has been put forth as a remedy to many of these health concerns, yet most of the focus has been on treatment rather than prevention, leaving the root causes unaddressed. This thesis aims to reorient the focus toward the proactive use of biophilic design to promote well-being and avert the onset of these issues. Design principles draw from the theory of Salutogenesis, the idea that health is a condition that can be caused, rather than the mere absence of illness. If biophilia is salutogenic (i.e. generates health), this thesis postulates that such architecture will also act as a prophylaxis, or preventative medicine. To explore this topic, a hypothetical wellness center was designed in partnership with a local organization, Community Health Center of the New River Valley. Design alternatives were presented to a group of participants using Virtual Reality headsets to view four spaces, each focused on a different element of biophilia: vegetation, water, light, and air. Interviews and questionnaires resulted in a number of trends and conclusions regarding best practices for the inclusion of natural elements in architecture.
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Al, Hourani Ehab Faisal. "Natural Light Transition Through A Healthcare Setting". Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/105035.
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Healthcare workers' overall performance and patients' well-being are crucial to wellness design and the overall productivity of the working environment. The purpose of this thesis is to narrate how natural light - a key aspect of biophilic design - can give great health outcomes and enhance the placemaking of a healthcare setting.
Hence, this dissertation attempts to deal with placemaking and formation as an inside-outside dialogue that connects users to nature by implementing the idea of transitioning natural light through space and structure. In doing so, lighting explorations were conducted as series of physical models and case studies to help understand and analyze various effects of light at different times of the day.
These explorations narrate a story about the journey of the medical worker and the patient throughout the setting of the apertures, walls, path, and canopy. Also, in response to the topography, a south-facing aperture wants to be framed, while a north-facing aperture can be an open wall, a smooth polished continuous wall and path can act as a canvas when the filtered light falls on it, while rough fragmented walls rise from earth acting as structural walls, and a cluster of trees can act as a natural canopy to provide shelter from the sun, while a steel canopy can shelter other areas from the rain or sun.Master of Architecture
Biophilia, the innate human instinct to connect with nature, is a foundational concept to biophilic architecture. This concept seeks to enhance the well-being of users when in a human-made environment, by incorporating vital aspects of nature in a building. Therefore, applying a biophilic-based design approach to a high stressed place like a hospital can be worthwhile in numerous ways to patients, their families, and healthcare workers. The thesis addresses the aspects of Biophilia and looks deeper into the effects and benefits of natural light in a healthcare setting.
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Rising, Hope. "Water Urbanism: Building More Coherent Cities". Thesis, University of Oregon, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19350.
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A more water-coherent approach is postulated as a primary pathway through which biophilic urbanism contributes to livability and climate change adaptation. Previous studies have shown that upstream water retention is more cost-effective than downstream for mitigating flood risks downstream. This dissertation proposes a research design for generating an iconography of water urbanism to make upstream cities more coherent. I tested a hypothesis of aquaphilic urbanism as a water-based sense of place that evokes water-based place attachment to help adapt cities and individuals to water-coherent urbanism. Cognitive mapping, photovoice, and emotional recall protocols were conducted during semi‐structured interviews with 60 residents and visitors sampled from eight water-centric cities in the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium. The participants provided 55 sketch maps. I performed content analyses, regression analyses, path analyses, and mediation analyses to study the relationships of 1) pictorial aquaphilia (intrinsic attachment to safe and clean water scenes) and waterscape imageability, 2) waterscape imageability and the coherence of city image, 3) egocentric aquaphilia (attachment to water-based spatial anchors) and allocentric aquaphilia (attachment to water-centric cities), and 4) the coherence of city image, allocentric aquaphilia, and openness towards water-coherent urbanism. Content analyses show that waterscape imageability and pictorial aquaphilia were the two most common reasons why participants mentioned the five waterscape types, including water landmarks, canals, lakes, rivers, and harbors, during the three recall protocols. Regression analyses indicate that water is a sixth element of imageability and that the imageable structure of canals and rivers and the identifiability of water landmarks significantly influenced the aesthetic coherence of city image. Path analyses suggest that allocentric aquaphilia can be attributed to water-based familiarity, water-based place identity (or identifiability), water-based comfort, and water-based place dependence (or orientation) evoked by water-based spatial anchors. Mediation analyses reveal that water-based goal affordance (as a construct of water-based comfort and water-based place dependence) aided environmental adaptation, while water-based imageability (as a construct of water-based familiarity and water-based place identity) helped adapt cities and individuals to water-coherent urbanism. Canal mappability mediated the effects of gender and of visitor versus resident on the coherence of city image to facilitate environmental adaptation.
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Hjortstam, Elvira. "Att växa upp med naturen : Förskolearkitektur med fokus på att främja relationen till natur och klimat, enkonceptuell utformning". Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och naturresurser, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-82723.
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Idag växer många barn i Sverigeupp i städer och förorter utannågot större kontakt naturen i sinvardag, något som kan bidra tillatt den upplevs som en avlägsenoch skrämmande plats. Våramoderna städer har mycket atterbjuda, men något som inte gåratt förneka är den distanseringtill naturen som skett i takt medurbaniseringen. (Kellert, 2005) Deflesta barn spenderar en stor delav sin dag i förskolan, att utformadess lokaler för att underlätta enstörre väder-beroende flexibilitetoch bidra till en större kontaktmed omgivande natur kan därförfå stora positiva effekter. Förskolansarkitektur kan spela en nyckelrolli grundläggandet av ecocentrisklivssyn. Syftet med detta examensarbeteär att ifrågasätta hur inom- ochutomhusmiljöer i förskolor kanbrukas i relation till väderförhållandenoch till förskolans dagligapedagogiska aktiviteter. Därfokus har lagts på aktiviteternaäta, skapa och lärarledd samvaro.Målet för arbetet är vidare attskapa en konceptuell arkitektoniskutformning som kan bidra tillen starkare kontakt med natureni förskolans verksamhet. Ett viktigtmål är även att belysa frågan omhur vi utformar våra förskolor ochöppna för diskussion. Metodiken för examensarbetethar genomförts enligt teorier förresearch-through-design. Fallstudieri form av intervjuer och egnaobservationer har genomförts påtvå förskolor i Göteborg, den kommunalaförskolan Bergartgatan 1och Ur & Skur förskolan Utsikten. Begränsningar och möjligheter förförskolornas rumsligheter i relationtill naturen och dagliga aktiviteterframkomna i förstudien kartläggs ien syntes. Syntesen lyfter fram 16stycken sammansatta slutsatseratt ligga till grund för gestaltningen,dessa finns att läsa i sin helhetpå sida 77. Ett konceptuellt gestaltningsförslagmed grund i den framtagnasyntesen samt Göteborgs Stadslokalprogram för förskolan tasfram på tomten Skolspåret 2 iHjällbo, Göteborg. Resultatet avgestaltningen är att betrakta somett tidigt skede och utgör inte enfärdig handling. Gestaltningsförslagetuppnår syftet att överbryggagapet mellan teori och praktikför framtagen syntes. Gestaltningenbör förhållas till som endast ettexempel på ett lösningsförslag dådesigndriven forskning bör ledatill en konkretisering av kunskapsom är applicerbar i ett vidareperspektiv än en platsspecifiklösning. (Lenzholzer, Duchhart, &van der Brink, 2013)
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Harper, C. J. "An exploration into the impact of animals as a therapeutic adjunct in education for children with behaviour, emotional and social difficulties : a biophilic philosophy for education". Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2015. http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/25288/.
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This PhD study makes an original contribution to to current research by examining through case study the impact of animal assisted activities for children and young people with Behaviour, Emotional and Social Difficulties (BESD). The thesis presents data, which supports that where contact with animals is offered as an alternative to traditional classroom based learning, children and young people with BESD are supported therapeutically, and enabled to build key relationship skills, thus enabling greater chance of success in learning. The primary motivation for the research was a commitment to better understand and thereby contribute, to a body of literature which seeks to explain and develop solutions and interventions for children and young people with a special need described as BESD alongside a curiosity for the world of nature and animals. Literature in this field includes consideration of frameworks which underpin work with BESD, such as research into trauma and its implications, leading to theories of attachment and in some cases, other psychodynamic concepts. Studies in Animal-Assisted Therapy and E.O.Wilson’s (2003) Biophilia Hypothesis support the consideration of animals as facilitators for mental and emotional health. The study employs a qualitative constellation methodology looking at three main case study contexts and utilising four additional smaller case studies to triangulate the findings. Psychosocial research tools were employed in order to understand the participants ‘story’, given the complexity of working with a vulnerable and challenging group. The main findings of the study show that animals have therapeutic potential as a conduit for relationships, being both social facilitators and taking the role of ‘the common third’ (Cameron and Moss, 2011). In a natural environment, with positive staff facilitation and purposeful activity, interventions with animals can support the development of key relationship skills such as trust, identification, empathy, nurture, understanding and self control. Further, the study shows there maybe educational impact, emotional impact, language and communication support and even health benefits. The study concludes with a discussion of the findings and makes recommendations for further empirical long-term research in the field of BESD and animal assisted activities.
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Demmler, Monika [Verfasser], e Hubert [Akademischer Betreuer] Zapf. "Biophilia and the Aesthetics of Blues, Jazz, and Hip-Hop Music in African-American Prose Fiction / Monika Demmler. Betreuer: Hubert Zapf". Augsburg : Universität Augsburg, 2015. http://d-nb.info/108077291X/34.
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Xu, Wenting. "Volvo's Whisper". Thesis, Umeå universitet, Designhögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-171723.
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The reason why the author came to Sweden made her think about her own experience living in the megacities. She realized that the people live nearby nature have more attention care about themselves, others, and the environment. They have a sensitivity of quality, comfort, and freshness, and even sustainability since they are young. Those are also the brand cores of Volvo. Besides, the comparison between the childhood living environment of her generation and that of her parents’ generation made her think about the expectation for the future. So the author thought why not use this project to bring the values she understands now to children. Since she was one of them, it would be interesting to think about the usages and experience from their perspectives. How would they like to perceive nature? How would they like to travel to nature? How would the whole society’s attitude be towards this? These questions guided the author to go into the research phase. Imagining being a kid again was the most delightful part of this project. The author implements creativity in two lines together. On one hand, she collaged natural elements to create an inspiration board, to think about the new possibilities of structure and atmosphere. On another hand, she abstracted her thoughts and imagination to communicate with children, so that she could get clear feedback and preference from her users, and finally was able to settle the concept. Forms and shapes were developed further during the design and refinement process. Sketches, immediate tests, modeling, and additional researching, and data queries were included along the way. The final result is the interior concept ‘ Volvo’s whisper’, one autonomous electric minibus, supporting children’s educational trips around the city. The Interior structure represents the natural unstructured environment. Physical shapes and visual interaction would inspire kids to care about lives in nature. and also teach them about safety. This is the way the author designed to show her thinking of how to encourage children’s biophilia.
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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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Barowski, Cambrie J. "Senior Living: A Comprehensive Approach Towards Age Inclusiveness". University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin15635256839502.
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Melhem, Sari. "Hózhó, A Rainbow Project for Healthy People". Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/105088.
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This thesis thrives to promote community health and wellbeing through smart design, celebrating culture(s), and offering efficacious and real-world solutions to mitigate certain challenges arising from the imminent threat of climate change and the gradual depletion of our planet's natural resources. The projected building harnesses naturel forces, minimizes energy consumption, and uses natural/passive strategies like thermal mass and natural ventilation. Interior spaces enjoy an abundance of Natural lighting, biophilic attributes, and thera-serlized or uninterrupted views. It generates electrical energy due to adequate solar power and clear skies, especially in hot and arid climates like the proposed location of the project in Tuba City, AZ. In my proposal of a sustainable, community-focused, wellness center, this project will attempt to embrace diversity, celebrate the Navajos heritage through incorporating their belief system and culture into the genius Loci of the place, which will have a long-term healing effect on patients during their journey of recovery. The Navajo nation is a native American reservation and a self-governing community located in the southwest of the US between four states (UT, AZ, NM, CO). Since it's an Underserved, marginalized, and medically under-resourced community, the Navajo Nation was prone to COVID-19 onslaught in 2020, which resulted in substantial number of cases compared to other US states.Master of Architecture
In Dec 2020, the World witnessed the first case of Coronavirus disease or COVID-19 in Wuhan, China. The disease has since spread rapidly worldwide, leading to an ongoing pandemic. Like many countries across the globe, the health system in the United States of America has to grabble with this deadly virus by inducing measures such as mask mandates and lockdowns in many US states. Unfortunately, and due to economic and social disparities, COVID-19 pandemic has brought injustice and inequity to the forefront of public health. Some communities were hit hard due to lack of emergency response, the availability of health professionals, and healthcare infrastructure. Tuba city, which is the Diné or the Navajo nation second-largest community in Coconino County, AZ, was majorly hit with COVID-19 resulting in a significant number of cases compared to other US cities. This project is a critical component of an emergency preparedness matrix that can firstly; help absorb the shock of such outbreaks by providing primary and outpatient services. Secondly; it offers community-focused and wellness service that can empower underserved, under-resourced and valuable communities like the Navajo Nation. This project is unique due to its inherited and embedded characteristics of bringing the Navajo tradition into the spirit of the building, by celebrating their culture making it a key component in a patent's healing process.
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Sauer, Jordan R. "Architectural Mediation: Man and the Lick Run Elements". University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1617109515909797.
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Michaud, Alyssa R. ""Copies without Originals": Manipulation, Mediation, and Mediatization in Performance and Recording Practices". Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23605.
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This thesis examines case studies and historical accounts taken from different periods of the history of recording technology, and addresses questions concerning the impact of mediatization, manipulation, and mediation on listeners' and performers' approaches to music. The project considers the development of the idea of "copies without originals," and of the ideological frameworks that have been used to describe and classify recorded sound. The first case study covers the early days of the phonograph and its development in Victorian society, then contrasts the values and motivations of those early years with modern-day rock performance and its own value systems. Moving into the mid-twentieth century, a chapter of this thesis is devoted to the work of Glenn Gould, and the possibilities for tape manipulation that the Canadian pianist explored during the period of his career that was focused on the recording studio. Lastly, this project examines the innovative, user-driven methods of music-making that are gaining momentum today, including Bjork's "Biophilia" app album, and the emergence of a new genre of popular music in Asia that uses vocal synthesizers in place of live performers. By exploring these case studies alongside the works of scholars in musicology, media studies, sound theory, film and television, and popular music studies, this thesis demonstrates how cultural need, individual innovation, and social involvement interact to direct the development and application of emerging media technologies.
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White, Kristi Elizabeth. "The Role of Nature in Physiological Recovery from Stress: A Critical Examination of Restorative Environments Theory". Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4791.
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Recently, health researchers have become interested in "eco-friendly" or "green" healthcare. One of the current trends in the green healthcare movement involves incorporating natural elements into health care settings to promote the health of patients and healthcare workers. Research based on Restorative Environments Theory (RET) provides insight into the rationale behind incorporating nature into the healthcare setting. RET posits that pleasant natural environments help promote stress recovery by increasing positive affect, decreasing negative affect, and reducing physiological arousal. However, the components of this theory have not been sufficiently tested using a controlled laboratory environment. The purpose of the present study was to provide a more rigorous test of RET than what is currently found in the literature by using a controlled laboratory- based design. Undergraduates from the University of South Florida were randomly assigned to view 1) no images, 2) neutral, non-nature images, 3) pleasant, non-nature images, or 4) pleasant, nature images during recovery from an anger recall task. Overall, the results of the present study did not demonstrate support for RET. There were no group differences in recovery time for any of the physiological variables with the exception of TPR. Those in the pleasant, non-nature condition took longest to recover. Further, there were no group differences in affect ratings with the exception of positive affect, which was higher for those in the no-image control condition. From an evidence-based practice framework, this study suggests that additional empirical support is needed before RET is used as a foundation to justify widespread adoption of nature-based interventions using media presentation to represent the natural environment.
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haj, Juana. "Post-Pandemic Alternative Architectural Design". Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-44425.
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Architecture is known to gather people and encourage shared spaces in our buildings and homes, while the Corona virus, aka COVID-19 has refrained us from our usual face to face communication and meetups. For some, work and social life has been reduced and limited to a screen, virtual meetings for studies, work, social events and so forth. Architecture has its impact on us more than ever before. It can and should provide us safety, infection control and prevention from getting sick. The materials we choose to design our home with is also crucial in a pandemic situation as we should be looking for disinfectant material properties. Copper have been shown to perform better than other common materials like steel, plastic, and wood. Air circulation and ventilation in inner spaces will also have stricter requirements where the air should be changed every hour and checking the air quality – that could be improved with the ratio of greenery and open spaces. Designing a home that can stimulate the productivity, flexibility, comfort, happiness, and health in its dwellers is the ultimate goal for this study. The target audience for the thesis are architects, interior designers and laymen who are interested in this field or those that are seeking a design which promotes healthy, safe and adequate living spaces and homes. The methods used in this study where both quantitative and qualitative methods through an international online survey as well as conducting local interviews with residential buildings’ dwellers in Berlin. On one hand, poor design can lead to both higher expenses in the long term as well as leading to bad physical and mental health, which is felt through the responses from both the survey and interviews. The biophilic design on the other hand, can have a huge positive impact on the dwellers both physically and mentally and should be tested and used more as a solid base for designing interior spaces.