Developing Architectural Design Model for Enhancing Occupant’s Psychophysiological Wellbeing in Healthy Building

DOI: 10.5176/2301-394X_ACE15.59

Authors: RatnaKala Sithravel & Rahinah Ibrahim

Abstract:

There is a need to enhance occupant’s psychophysiological wellbeing in the micro built environment, against its increasing indoor environmental threats. The underlying purpose of this article are, acquiring better understanding about occupant’s psychophysiological wellbeing requirements and how we could integrate them along with established indoor environment parameters in order to mitigate the threats. This is a survey article presenting findings, selected theories and applications on healthy building design conventions and occupant’s psychophysiological wellbeing in the built environment. Results of this survey include identifying several potential dynamic characters involved in occupant’s psychophysiological wellbeing enhancement, and proposing potential design criteria in designing healthy buildings. The findings precede the discussion on recommending further studies for integrating occupant’s psychophysiological wellbeing in a healthy building design process. After the introduction of the background problem, the article will present the results from the literature survey on healthy building design and occupant’s psychophysiological wellbeing before discussing the potentials for design integration to occur. Recommendations from this study are expected to lead towards further studies on the development of a healthy architectural design process model for enhancing the occupant’s psychophysiological wellbeing within its indoor environment.

Keywords: Sustainable Design Informatics; Psychophysiological Wellbeing; Healthy Building; Indoor Environment; Integrated Design Management