Design for Health
Sustainable Approaches to Therapeutic Architecture
Wiley (Publisher)
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 24. March 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
136 pages
978-1-119-16213-1 (ISBN)
Description
Design for Health: Sustainable Approaches to Therapeutic Architecture Guest-Edited by Terri Peters
This issue of AD seeks out innovative and varied sustainable architectural responses to designing for health, such as:
integrating sensory gardens and landscapes into the care environment;
specifying local materials and passive technologies;
and reinvigorating aging postwar facilities.
Contributors include: Anne-Marie Adams, Sean Ahlquist, Giuseppe Boscherini, Robin Guenther, Charles Jencks, Richard Mazuch, Stephen Verderber,
Featured architects: 100% Interior, Arup, C.F. Moller, Lyons, MASS Design Group, Mongomery Sisam Architects, Penoyre & Prasad
This issue of AD seeks out innovative and varied sustainable architectural responses to designing for health, such as:
integrating sensory gardens and landscapes into the care environment;
specifying local materials and passive technologies;
and reinvigorating aging postwar facilities.
Contributors include: Anne-Marie Adams, Sean Ahlquist, Giuseppe Boscherini, Robin Guenther, Charles Jencks, Richard Mazuch, Stephen Verderber,
Featured architects: 100% Interior, Arup, C.F. Moller, Lyons, MASS Design Group, Mongomery Sisam Architects, Penoyre & Prasad
Reviews / Votes
"Serves as a timely, topical and thought-provoking reminder of the potential of our industry to significantly and tangibly improve the quality of people's lives through better buildings." (The NBS, July 2017)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 282 mm
Width: 208 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-119-16213-1 (9781119162131)
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Person
Terri Peters is a Canadian architect, writer and researcher now based in Toronto, who previously lived and worked in Denmark and the UK for 12 years. She has a broad network of multi-disciplinary collaborators, relating to sustainability research, building transformation, health and wellbeing, as well as the employment of new technologies. She is a Post-Doctoral researcher at the University of Toronto, investigating the relationship between sustainable architecture and health, particularly analysing how architectural design can improve patient wellbeing in residential care environments. She has organised conferences, served on discussion panels and award juries, and made presentations to various international construction industry and research institutions. She is the editor of two recent publications: Experimental Green Strategies: Redefining Ecological Design Research, AD (Wiley, 2011) and Inside Smartgeometry: Expanding the Architectural Possibilities of Computational Design (Wiley 2013).
Content
About the Guest-Editor 05
Terri Peters
Introduction
Interconnected Approachesto Sustainable Architecture 06
Terri Peters
Decoding Modern Hospitals
An Architectural History 16
Annmarie Adams
Superarchitecture
Building for Better Health 24
Terri Peters
Lean, Green and Healthy
Landscape and Health 32
Julian Weyer
Salutogenic and Biophilic Design as Therapeutic Approaches to Sustainable Architecture 42
Richard Mazuch
Environmentally Smart Design
Designing for Social Wellbeing Across the City and in the Workplace 48
Alisdair McGregor, Ann Marie Aguilar and Victoria Lockhart
Humanist Principles, Sustainable Design and Salutogenics
A New Form of Healthcare Architecture 56
Corbett Lyon
Maggie's Architecture
The Deep Affinities Between Architecture and Health 66
Charles Jencks
Healthy Patient Rooms in Hospitals
Emotional Wellbeing Naturally 76
Sylvia Leydecker
Can Architecture Heal?
Buildings as Instruments of Health 82
Michael Murphy and Jeffrey Mansfield
Multisensory Architecture
The Dynamic Interplay of Environment, Movement and Social Function 90
Sean Ahlquist, Leah Ketcheson and Costanza Colombi
Architects as First Responders
Portable Healthcare Architecture in a Climate-Altered World 100
Stephen Verderber
A Sense of Coherence
Supporting the Healing Process 108
Giuseppe Boscherini
Cultivating the 'In-Between'
Humanising the Modern Healthcare Experience 114
Terry Montgomery
Regenerative Agents
Patient-Focused Architectures 112
Sunand Prasad
Counterpoint Transforming Hospitals
Building Restorative Healthcare 128
Robin Guenther
Contributors 134
Terri Peters
Introduction
Interconnected Approachesto Sustainable Architecture 06
Terri Peters
Decoding Modern Hospitals
An Architectural History 16
Annmarie Adams
Superarchitecture
Building for Better Health 24
Terri Peters
Lean, Green and Healthy
Landscape and Health 32
Julian Weyer
Salutogenic and Biophilic Design as Therapeutic Approaches to Sustainable Architecture 42
Richard Mazuch
Environmentally Smart Design
Designing for Social Wellbeing Across the City and in the Workplace 48
Alisdair McGregor, Ann Marie Aguilar and Victoria Lockhart
Humanist Principles, Sustainable Design and Salutogenics
A New Form of Healthcare Architecture 56
Corbett Lyon
Maggie's Architecture
The Deep Affinities Between Architecture and Health 66
Charles Jencks
Healthy Patient Rooms in Hospitals
Emotional Wellbeing Naturally 76
Sylvia Leydecker
Can Architecture Heal?
Buildings as Instruments of Health 82
Michael Murphy and Jeffrey Mansfield
Multisensory Architecture
The Dynamic Interplay of Environment, Movement and Social Function 90
Sean Ahlquist, Leah Ketcheson and Costanza Colombi
Architects as First Responders
Portable Healthcare Architecture in a Climate-Altered World 100
Stephen Verderber
A Sense of Coherence
Supporting the Healing Process 108
Giuseppe Boscherini
Cultivating the 'In-Between'
Humanising the Modern Healthcare Experience 114
Terry Montgomery
Regenerative Agents
Patient-Focused Architectures 112
Sunand Prasad
Counterpoint Transforming Hospitals
Building Restorative Healthcare 128
Robin Guenther
Contributors 134