AMANDA CLEVELAND
LEED® AP BD+C, emerging interior design professional and researcher, & biophilic design enthusiast.
BIOPHILIC DESIGN + RESTORATIVE HEALING
GRADUATE THESIS RESEARCH \\ Year: 1st & 2nd-Year Graduate \\ Duration: 2 years
The lobby space to the urban wellness resort promotes biophilic design attributes such as natural lighting, inside-outside spaces, transitional spaces, water, greenery, and a sense of prospect and refuge.
The lobby space to the urban wellness resort promotes biophilic design attributes such as natural lighting, inside-outside spaces, transitional spaces, water, greenery, and a sense of prospect and refuge.
The lobby space to the urban wellness resort promotes biophilic design attributes such as natural lighting, inside-outside spaces, transitional spaces, water, greenery, and a sense of prospect and refuge.
Project task: Use an original thesis research component to redesign an existing facility in order to solve an issue using evidence-based design.
Issue:
Densely populated urban environments have become vastly depleted of natural elements and outdoor gathering spaces due to technology and industrialization. The urban environment has become filled with ecological and sensory deprivation, hazardous chemicals, and artificiality and is now less focused on the individual experience and the integration of nature within the built environment. Together these have all grown to be contributing factors of the weakened human-nature connectIion.
Purpose:
The purpose of this research is to effectively create an urban *restorative healing environment with *biophilic attributes that offers alternative, nature-based and natural means of healing and restoration. The design will utilize an existing building in Tribeca, NY in order to promote adaptive reuse and to work with the typical shape, size, and challenges of a building found in an urban setting.
• *Biophilic design: “The expression of the inherent human need to affiliate with nature in the design of the built environment; on the premise that the positive experience of natural systems remains critical to human performance and well-being” (Kellert, 2008, p. viii).
• *Restorative healing environment: a space that promotes a sense of renewal that is often achieved through two different means; rest and escape (Kaplan & Kaplan, 1989).