Author(s)/Creator(s)

Brian Schaller

Document Type

Thesis, Senior

Degree

B. ARCH

Date

Spring 2012

Keywords

healthcare, healing environment, phenomenology, evidence-based design, Manhattan

Language

English

Disciplines

Architecture

Description/Abstract

"It is the contention of this thesis that a study of the phenomenological approach to how one experiences space and by incorporating evidence-based design criteria that are acknowledged for improving wellbeing, quality of life, and reducing distress in people, a healing environment will emerge. The experienced environment will facilitate a temporal awareness of one's self and the design criteria's attention to the experienced setting will allow for a healing environment to emerge within the architecture. I am not proposing that architecture can heal, but rather the architecture can stimulate a healing environment."

Additional Information

Advisors: Randall Korman / Anne Munley

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