The Role of Features Reducing Anxiety in Interior Spaces Public Waiting Spaces in Healthcare Buildings as a Case Study

MUTHANNA JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (MJET)

The Role of Features Reducing Anxiety in Interior Spaces Public Waiting Spaces in Healthcare Buildings as a Case Study

 

Volume 4, Issue 2, Dec 2016, Pages 66-74
 DOI: 10.52113/3/mjet/2016-4-2/66-74
Research Article:

شمائل محمد وجيه الدباغ
قسم هندسة العمارة، الجامعة التكنولوجية

 

Email address: shamael.dabbagh@gmail.com

 



ABSTRACT

This research examines the physical helth care environments and explores how to utilize
(indoor water features) for regenerating people spirit. Although much research supports the
idea that natural elements may help alleviate stress and anxiety, but bringing nature into the
public interior spaces is problematic. There is a lack of research about the relationship
between the helth care physical spaces, stress, and indoor water features. This study
investigates how to utilize (indoor water features) in the helth care public spaces that may
help reduce stress potential
The absence of a comprehensive theoretical framework for the role of water feature as
an effective restorative element that may reduce stress by providing a pleasant affect, and
exploring its implicit psychological aspects constitutes the main research problem. In view
of the problem under investigation, the goal of the present research is defined to arrive at
the identifying of the main strategies to reduce stress potential by using indoor water
features in the public helth care spaces. Arriving at the aforementioned aim requires
building a theoretical framework, and then the application of the framework to selected
interior helth care spaces images (with various water features) in order to test the validity
of the hypothesis. Finally research findings, a set of recommendations are put forward.

Keywords: Water Features, Anxiety & Stress, Public Waiting Spaces, Health Care Buildings.

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