Design Health for your performance

Users of a space are the most experienced people within the built environment. They know the conditions, obstacles and problems that inhibit their productivity and affect their satisfaction. Through a participatory process, we guide the process of identifying, prioritizing, and solving the issues. This ensures that the most paramount challenges are addressed, solutions are integrated, appropriate and contextually relevant and that users share ownership in the process.

Interiors are just as important as exteriors. Products for the outside environment, such as bus stop booths, signs and other typographical items, materials for groundcover etc, all have a shape which someone needs to decide about. If all these factors do not function well or do not have the qualities, which correlate to the need for a suitable purpose, quality architecture will not be achieved.

According to the salutogenic theory, a sense of coherence is fostered by people’s ability to comprehend the built environment (comprehensibility), to be effective in his behavior (manageability) and to find meaning from the stimuli and exposure from their built environment (meaningfulness).

We define design as; “all around us”, that will impact our emotion and experiences and thereby our health and wellbeing.This includes elements of architecture, interior design, landscaping, as well as organizational profiles that contribute to the built environment. Together, these components make an architectural whole that play a critical role in our physiological and psychological health.

Details and the whole are interdependent. Size and variation affect aesthetic and physical qualities toward the final architectural result. The same argues for colors, wallpaper, lamps and rugs, furnishing the building, floor and wall materials, interior products, bathroom and kitchen equipment, use of materials such as ceramic design, textile design, interior design and industrial design, all skills of the design professions.  Each of these components contribute to the greater whole, adding to the stimulation, coherence, control, and restoration of an environment.