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The happy design toolkit : architecture for better mental wellbeing
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ISBN: 9781003277897 9781859469866 1859469868 1003277896 1000564657 1000564673 1003277896 Year: 2022 Publisher: London : RIBA Publishing,

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If you were to design a building that prioritises occupants’ happiness, what would it look like? How would the materials, form and layout support healthy ways of living and working? Delving into the evidenced-based research on architecture and mental wellbeing, The Happy Design Toolkit helps you to create happier places. It explores how factors, such as lighting, comfort, control over our environments and access to nature, exercise and social interaction, can impact how we feel. Easy-to-understand tips include bringing nature into your developments with roof gardens and living facades and countering social isolation with communal areas that encourage chance interaction. Each of the featured architectural interventions includes an analysis of the wellbeing benefits as well as the potential limitations or associated challenges. From sparking joy in individual homes and workplaces to encouraging healthier lifestyles through landscaping and urban design, this book demonstrates how wellbeing concepts can be integrated across a range of scales and typologies. Packed with inspiration and advice, The Happy Design Toolkit will breathe new life into your projects and help you create a happier and more inclusive built environment for everyone. Features real-world examples including Marmalade Lane co-housing by Mole Architects, Francis Holland School by BDP, Maggie’s Centre Oldham by dRMM Architects, Kings Crescent Estate by Karakusevic Carson Architects and Happy Street by Yinka Ilori. Over 100 hand-drawn illustrations of design details and elevations. Essential reading for architects, interior designers, landscape architects and students. Introduction & How to use this book 1. Light, natural and artificial 2. Comfort and materials 3. Control and autonomy 4. Nature and biophilia 5. Aesthetics and legibility 6. Activity and exercise 7. Social interaction, community and sense of place Conclusion Ben Channon is an architect specialising in designing healthy buildings. He is author of Happy by Design: A Guide to Architecture and Wellbeing (2019, RIBA Publishing), a Director at design-for-wellbeing consultancy Ekkist, and co-founder of the Architects’ Mental Wellbeing Forum.


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The production of hospice space : conceptualising the space of caring and dying
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ISBN: 9781138245723 9781409445791 9781315553870 9781317018926 9781317018933 Year: 2016 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxfordshire ; New York, NY : Routledge,

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Challenging the widely held notion of a hospice as a building or a place, this book argues that it should instead be a philosophy of care. It proposes that the positive and negative impact that space can have in the pursuit of an ideal such as hospice care has previously been underestimated. Whether it be a purpose-built hospice, part of a hospital, a nursing home or within the home, a hospice is anchored by space and spatial practices, and these spatial practices are critical for a holistic approach to dying with dignity. Such spatial practices are understood as part of a broad architectural, social, conceptual and theoretical process. By linking health, social and architectural theory and establishing conceptual principles, this book defines 'hospice' as a philosophy that is underpinned by space and spatial practice. In putting forward the notion of 'hospice space', removed from the bounds of a specific building type, it suggests that hospice philosophy could and should be available within any setting of choice where the spatial practices support that philosophy, be it home, nursing home, hospice or 'hospice-friendly-hospitals'.


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Caring architecture : institutions and relational practices.
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ISBN: 1443874892 9781443874892 9781443898966 1443898961 Year: 2017 Publisher: S.l. : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

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Architecture is hard stuff. It is formed by walls, roofs, floors, all components of hard materials, stone, glass and wood. It distributes people in space and directs their doings and movements. Institutions are even harder stuff. Order is pushed a step further by the coerciveness of discursive architectural models and caring practices, restricting options to certain ways of thinking and acting. This book illuminates how people and spaces negotiate, and often challenge, regularities and patterns embedded in the meeting between architecture and institutions.


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Building for Dementia
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ISBN: 3868599320 9783868599329 3868594787 9783868594782 9783868594782 3868594787 Year: 2018 Publisher: Berlin

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As a consequence of demographic change, it is increasingly necessary now and in the future for the architectural profession to rethink the design of residential solutions for aging people and especially those with dementia. With advancing age we are increasingly dependent on a spatial environment that not only has a positive effect on us, but also supports our everyday activities and takes age-related restrictions into account.A focal point of the new requirements is multisensory architecture: color and lighting design, sound design, tactile materials and surfaces, and haptically attractive forms, creating a spatial atmosphere in which the resident feels comfortable, providing security and orientation and fostering motor skills and cognitive abilities. Bauen für Demenz (Building for Dementia) has been developed as a guideline for contemporary and dignified architecture that meets the requirements of people with dementia and views them as an integral part of society. Im Zuge des demografischen Wandels ist die Architektur heute und in der Zukunft mehr denn je gefordert, die Gestaltung von Wohnsituationen für alternde Menschen und vor allem solche mit Demenz neu zu denken. Mit zunehmendem Alter sind wir mehr denn je auf eine räumliche Umgebung angewiesen, die uns nicht nur positiv beeinflusst, sondern vor allem in unseren Alltagsaktivitäten unterstützt und altersbedingte Beeinträchtigungen ausgleicht. Im Zentrum neuer Anforderungen steht eine multisensorische Architektur: Farb­ und Lichtgestaltung, Klangdesign, sinnlich erfahrbare Materialien und Oberflächen sowie haptisch attraktive Formen ermöglichen erst eine Raumatmosphäre, in der Bewohner sich wohlfühlen. Diese bietet Sicherheit und Orientierung und fördert motorische und kognitive Fähigkeiten. Bauen für Demenz wurde als ein Leitfaden für eine zeitgemäße und würdevolle Architektur entwickelt, die Menschen mit Demenz gerecht wird und sie als inklusiven Teil der Gesellschaft versteht.


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Person-centered health care design
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ISBN: 9780367194871 0367194872 9780367194857 9780429202742 0429202741 9780429514784 0429514786 9780429511356 0429511353 9780429518218 0429518218 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York, NY : Routledge,

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"Disease, injury, or congenital disorders result in an inability to perform activities of daily living as effectively as others. Most of these activities take place within and are dependent upon the designed environment. This book presents the specialized area of person-centered health care design, which focuses on a person's design needs because of one or more health conditions and requires foundational knowledge pertaining to infection control, bio physiology, neuroscience, and basic biomechanics. Whether the designer has engaged in person or condition-centered design, this book examines the causes that bring about health conditions, such as autoimmune disorders, chronic lung disease, muscular dystrophy, and neurological disorders, and the effects these have on a person's quality of life. Over forty various heath conditions are discussed in relation to assorted building typologies-schools, group homes, rehabilitation and habilitation centers, and more-to identify design solutions for modifying each environment to best accommodate and support a person's needs. Dak Kopec encourages readers to think critically and deductively about numerous health conditions and how to best design for them. This book provides students and practitioners a foundational framework that supports the promotion of health, safety, and welfare as they pertain to a person's physiological, psychological, and sociological well-being"--


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What can a body do? How we meet the built world
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ISBN: 9780735220003 9780735220027 073522000X Year: 2020 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Riverhead Books

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A fascinating and provocative new way of looking at the things we use and the spaces we inhabit, and a call to imagine a better-designed world for us all. Furniture and tools, kitchens and campuses and city streets--nearly everything human beings make and use is assistive technology, meant to bridge the gap between body and world. Yet unless, or until, a misfit between our own body and the world is acute enough to be understood as disability, we may never stop to consider--or reconsider--the hidden assumptions on which our everyday environment is built. In a series of vivid stories drawn from the lived experience of disability and the ideas and innovations that have emerged from it--from cyborg arms to customizable cardboard chairs to deaf architecture --Sara Hendren invites us to rethink the things and settings we live with. What might assistance based on the body's stunning capacity for adaptation--rather than a rigid insistence on "normalcy"--look like? Can we foster interdependent, not just independent, living? How do we creatively engineer public spaces that allow us all to navigate our common terrain? By rendering familiar objects and environments newly strange and wondrous, What Can a Body Do? helps us imagine a future that will better meet the extraordinary range of our collective needs and desires.


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Architecture for residential care and ageing communities : spaces for dwelling and healthcare
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ISBN: 9780367358716 0367358719 9780367358730 1000202232 9781000202359 1000202356 9781000202298 1000202291 9780429342370 0429342373 9781000202236 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

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"Architecture for Residential Care and Ageing Communities confronts urgent architectural design challenges within residential innovation, ageing communities and healthcare environments. The increasing and diversified demands on the housing market today call for alterability and adaptability in long term solutions for new integrated ways of residing. Meanwhile, an accentuated ageing society requires new residential ways of living, combining dignity, independence and appropriate care. Concurrently, profound changes in technical conditions for home healthcare require rethinking healing environments. This edited collection explores the dynamics between these integrated architectural and caring developments and intends to envision reconfigured environmental design patterns that can significantly enhance new forms of welfare and ultimately, an improved quality of life. This book identifies, presents, and articulates new qualities in designs, in caring processes, and healing atmospheres, thereby providing operational knowledge developed in close collaboration with academics, actors and stakeholders in architecture, design, and healthcare. This is an ideal read for those interested in situations of dwelling, ageing and caring"--


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Making disability modern : design histories
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ISBN: 9781350070424 9781350070431 1350070424 1350070432 9781350070455 9781350070448 Year: 2022 Publisher: London Bloomsbury Visual Arts

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Making Disability Modern: Design Histories brings together leading scholars to examine how designed objects and spaces contributes to the meanings of ability and disability from the late 18th century to the present day, and in homes, offices, and schools to realms of national and international politics.

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Self-help devices for people with disabilities --- Design --- Barrier-free design --- Barrier-free design. --- Design and construction --- History. --- Human factors. --- Universal Design --- Self-Help Devices --- Communication Aids for Disabled --- Disability Studies --- Assistive Devices --- Assistive Technology --- Assistive Device --- Assistive Technologies --- Device, Assistive --- Device, Self-Help --- Devices, Assistive --- Devices, Self-Help --- Self Help Devices --- Self-Help Device --- Technologies, Assistive --- Technology, Assistive --- Disabled Persons --- Design for All --- Human Centered Design --- Design, Human Centered --- Design, Universal --- Designs, Human Centered --- Human Centered Designs --- Universal Designs --- Access to buildings for people with disabilities --- Accessibility for people with disabilities --- Architecture and the handicapped --- Architecture and the physically handicapped --- People with disabilities and architecture --- Architecture --- Human factors in design --- Human engineering --- Design and construction&delete& --- History --- Human factors --- TDD --- TTY Telephone --- Text Telecommunication --- Text Telecommunication Devices --- Text Telephone --- Augmentative and Alternative Communications Systems --- Communication Aids for Handicapped --- Communication Boards --- Speech Synthesizers --- Telecommunications Devices for the Deaf --- Communication Board --- Speech Synthesizer --- Synthesizer, Speech --- Synthesizers, Speech --- TTY Telephones --- Telecommunication Device, Text --- Telecommunication Devices, Text --- Telecommunication, Text --- Telecommunications, Text --- Text Telecommunication Device --- Text Telecommunications --- Text Telephones --- Speech Recognition Software --- Assistive technology --- Self-help devices for the disabled --- People with disabilities --- 72.012.4 --- Social policy and particular groups --- Product strategy --- History of civilization --- designs [artistic concepts] --- disabilities

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