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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"healthy building"”.
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Healthy Building, People, Planet: A Place for Learning and Play
… accessibility to public parks, availability of healthy food, and accountability for sustainability within our cities and suburbs. The architectural design proposal is an Elementary School, in Old Town Alexandria, that promotes learning through activity and play, is a living laboratory for …
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Health Starts in the Home: An Assessment of Efforts to Improve Occupant Health through Healthy Building Materials in San Francisco’s Affordable Housing
… of this time is spent at home, surrounded by building materials that typically have added chemicals like flame retardants, highly fluorinated compounds, and antimicrobials. Recent research has linked these chemicals to adverse health outcomes such as asthma, endocrine disruption, cancer, …
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Vieques Cancer Treatment Center: Applying evidence-based design strategies
… advantage of an impacted site from a previous building to preserve any dense vegetation that surrounds the area and working with the existing topographical conditions to limit any further impacts. Essentially, this proposal compliments any current conditions found in the site which in turn …
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Aligning Mind, Body, and Spirit Through Breath in Architecture
… is a huge influence in architectural design. Building well and thinking well are in turn living well, and this architectural thesis served as a journey in discovering how human health can manifest itself in a physical building. The architectural project is an Institute for Being and is located …
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How will well-being insights change architecture in the post-pandemic era?
… architecture, reconfiguring it in a way that the building could function as a medical tool. However, after years of living in a world without pandemics, designers just about to forget the importance of the design and its influence on human health. Although, the new restrictions placed on society …