健康校园设计的诸多好处

设计质量是我们一眼就能认出来的东西, but how do we value it and are there unseen benefits to certain types of design?

近年来, a light has been shone on the benefits that good design can bring to supporting collaboration and encouraging researchers, 行业, 和临床医生更紧密地合作.  We can even start to put numbers on this in terms of investment by 行业 partners or success in winning grants from research institutes.

好的设计的价值也延伸到健康和幸福 物理环境 在我们周围.  我们的校园、建筑和个人工作空间都有 对我们健康的影响 这种影响可能是好的，也可能是坏的.

当然，它有助于定义我们所说的健康:《AG平台》的序言 世界卫生组织组织法 《AG真人试玩网址》规定:

健康是一种完整的身体状态, 精神和社会福祉，而不仅仅是没有疾病或虚弱.’

This is a great starting point for healthy design because it reminds us that designing-in health isn’t just about taking the stairs (although that helps) but also about providing environments that reduce stress and encourage social interaction.

在所有尺度上都做到正确:

同样，健康也是一个复杂的系统, the skill of the designer is about not having a one dimensional view of designing-in wellbeing, 而是在很多不同的层面上做对.

Before people even get to the campus, decisions will have been taken about how to travel there.  实现一种模式的转变，以积极的方式旅行，如步行, 骑自行车, 增加公共交通的使用也很重要.  然而，我们的校园总体规划中有多少以停车为主?  经常太多.  由于它们的规模, universities and healthcare organisations have a fairly unique ability to engage with these issues at a regional scale compared to others.  在区域一级正在组织合作，例如 G4W 分布在威尔士和英格兰西南部. Health related to transport and issues such as air quality can be influenced greatly at this level.

At the campus scale green (planting and landscaping) and blue (water) infrastructure are important to promoting health and wellbeing.  Not only does this resource promote healthy activities but it can also reduce stress levels, 改善空气污染水平, 减少城市 热岛效应.  In addition, many of these features also support achieving sustainability targets. There is a great deal of overlap between features, such as those required by BREEAM or 生态校园，这些也有利于健康:一个良性循环的利益.  Designing-in health however needs also to consider social aspects too – IBI Group’s landscape architects through a Health Design Assessment tool have identified that the spaces between buildings can have a beneficial impact on social wellbeing.

“绿色”建筑对健康的好处在工作中得到了突出体现 哈佛大学.  生态设计 is considered another hot topic and it is certainly true that material selection and design of spaces to reflect nature can be beneficial for health – for example the amount of visible timber in a space can be used as a design approach to reduce stress levels.

社会和技术变革:

Several years ago IBI Group’s ‘4 Labs 4 Cities’ study on what makes a good research building identified that technological change is a big issue for lab design.  在研究中使用技术, 学习, and by people in their everyday lives has potential to enhance design approaches that promote wellbeing.  Wayfinding apps can encourage walking routes around campus and aid access to active forms of travel.

Social and demographic change happens irrespective of what architects design and needs to be considered in the healthy campus.  We are living longer and the young and old suffer from increasing levels of loneliness in our cities.  我们生活的新模式, 工作, and play on the campus can respond to this in a positive way – for example New York University is looking at 让学生与老人同住的计划 -这对学生来说是一种潜在的节省，对两组人来说都是一种友谊.  Such intergenerational models are coming to the fore not only to solve housing problems but to support lifelong 学习 and harnessing the skills of the older generation providing a sense of purpose and thus improved social and mental health.

Not all good design is necessarily healthy design – but designing-in health makes for higher quality environments for people to live and 工作.  这方面的基准已经开始出现, 哪一种方式可以区分和展示市场领导地位, 比如吸引来自全球的顶尖学者.  The business case for building-in health should be easy to make though at an organisational level.  在企业界 对库普奖的研究 发现赢家的股价涨幅是美国的三倍&市场平均价格.  There are similar value propositions to be found in research environments and these need to be clearly promoted to get buy in from senior management and decision takers.  一如既往 由布里斯托尔大学的研究人员撰写, building-in wellbeing (or salutogenesis) is not only an individual or project level issue but also a strategic organisational issue too.

The campus is ripe for more consideration and more priority being given to designing-in health.  为了我们的健康，这是我们都应该为之努力的事情.

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