Elements of Wellbeing - a multi sensory approach towards healthy living by using the natural rhythm of the sun
(2024) AAHM10 20241Department of Architecture and Built Environment
- Abstract
- Since we as architects have an influence on people‘s everyday routines in their homes, it is important to understand the most natural human needs in order to create spaces for a healthy and joyful life, which are strongly connected to the environment. The human body is a complex organism which is strongly influenced by its immediate surroundings, whilst responding with circadian rhythms to the ever changing natural environment through the senses. The natural cycle of the sun has thereby the strongest influence on the human body and mind.
For as long as humanity has existed, people have lived according to the rhythm of the sun and thus in harmony with nature. At first people lived in caves until they began to build protective structures... (More) - Since we as architects have an influence on people‘s everyday routines in their homes, it is important to understand the most natural human needs in order to create spaces for a healthy and joyful life, which are strongly connected to the environment. The human body is a complex organism which is strongly influenced by its immediate surroundings, whilst responding with circadian rhythms to the ever changing natural environment through the senses. The natural cycle of the sun has thereby the strongest influence on the human body and mind.
For as long as humanity has existed, people have lived according to the rhythm of the sun and thus in harmony with nature. At first people lived in caves until they began to build protective structures and shelters which marks the beginning of the history of architecture. Over many years, various construction methods have been proven successful depending on different environmental conditions with variable requirements, e.g. materiality, that allowed people to live in close connection with nature. Hence different cultures and their behavioural occupation of space have developed depending on the location of dwelling.
Generations of people developed tried and tested knowledge of architectural space for the needs of the human body to live a healthy life with the natural resources from the immediate vicinity, although the globalisation that has grown fast in the last decades makes it easy for people to get anything they want from all over the world. Some of the gained knowledge from personal experience is still valid until today and often passed on orally from generation to generation, where sometimes important information is forgotten. However, research on human health is increasing steadily with new findings about well-being of the human body and mind that offer important knowledge for today‘s society.
When it comes to architectural space some of the proven knowledge is written down in rules and regulations, but what about the qualitative ingredients that form the architectural space into a subjectively perceived space with a healthy impact on the circadian rhythm of the human body?
In my thesis project I focus on researching the sensory perception of natural elements and their effect on humans in order to create spaces in which architecture mediates between the rural mountainous environment and the user themselves. (Less)
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- author
- Striewe, Kristina LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- AAHM10 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- daylight, circadian rhythm, healthy architecture, sustainability, well-being, human senses, rural housing
- language
- English
- id
- 9177020
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- 2024-10-24 08:39:14
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abstract = {{Since we as architects have an influence on people‘s everyday routines in their homes, it is important to understand the most natural human needs in order to create spaces for a healthy and joyful life, which are strongly connected to the environment. The human body is a complex organism which is strongly influenced by its immediate surroundings, whilst responding with circadian rhythms to the ever changing natural environment through the senses. The natural cycle of the sun has thereby the strongest influence on the human body and mind.
For as long as humanity has existed, people have lived according to the rhythm of the sun and thus in harmony with nature. At first people lived in caves until they began to build protective structures and shelters which marks the beginning of the history of architecture. Over many years, various construction methods have been proven successful depending on different environmental conditions with variable requirements, e.g. materiality, that allowed people to live in close connection with nature. Hence different cultures and their behavioural occupation of space have developed depending on the location of dwelling.
Generations of people developed tried and tested knowledge of architectural space for the needs of the human body to live a healthy life with the natural resources from the immediate vicinity, although the globalisation that has grown fast in the last decades makes it easy for people to get anything they want from all over the world. Some of the gained knowledge from personal experience is still valid until today and often passed on orally from generation to generation, where sometimes important information is forgotten. However, research on human health is increasing steadily with new findings about well-being of the human body and mind that offer important knowledge for today‘s society.
When it comes to architectural space some of the proven knowledge is written down in rules and regulations, but what about the qualitative ingredients that form the architectural space into a subjectively perceived space with a healthy impact on the circadian rhythm of the human body?
In my thesis project I focus on researching the sensory perception of natural elements and their effect on humans in order to create spaces in which architecture mediates between the rural mountainous environment and the user themselves.}},
author = {{Striewe, Kristina}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Elements of Wellbeing - a multi sensory approach towards healthy living by using the natural rhythm of the sun}},
year = {{2024}},
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