Healing by transforming

Healing by transforming: Creating the empowered healing environment

Koopmans, Jaap (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Snijders, A. (mentor)
Tomesen, P.L. (mentor)
Jenkins, A.J. (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Architectural Engineering

2023-01-17

According to the Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM), there will be more focus on tackling the unhealthy effects of urbanization in the near future. This together with the presence of a large stock of vacant buildings and other developments within these urban areas and the challenges which are formed by the developments in healthcare brings up the potential to create so-called healing environments. Although, mostly situated within a natural context, the question could be how to implement the design approach of a healing environment into an existing building within an urban context and what values it could bring to the surrounding neighborhood. Especially when given an user-centered (holistic) approach. This graduation design project explores in which way this user-centered design approach can be optimised by implementing certain 'atmospheres' within an existing context of a building in the station area of Leiden.

Healing
Environment
rehabilitation
atmospheres
Experience Design
Architectural Engineering
renovation
transformation
Urban Area Development
Landscape architecture
Biophilic design
graduation
Leiden
design strategy
User Centered Design
Virtual reality
Iterative method
Sterile
Balanced
Healthcare Architecture
Empowering
Social cohesion
densification
anchoring
Post-65
second life
Nature
Daylight
Acoustic comfort
Fresh air
public design

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Student theses

master thesis

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