Our Approach:
We believe that health and wellness should be addressed by responsive quality design. We engage users of space to identify, prioritize and solve their key operational issues while complimenting their view with salutogenic design principles. This ensures that the future of your space responds to your organizational needs while also promoting health, wellness, and productivity.
What are Salutogenic Design Principles?
Salutogenic Design Principles are systematic wellness design factors that can be identified and applied to support the user’s experience, health and wellbeing within their work, learning or healing environment. To create such a psychosocially and physiologically supportive environment, context specific elements cannot be ignored. Careful attention should be given to human values, respect of culture and the operational needs within the environment to guarantee that the environment supports health, productivity and satisfaction.
More of Salutogenic Design Principles
Human beings spend more than ninety percent (90%) of their time in man-made indoor environments, yet the existing knowledge of how these environments affect human health is still insufficient. Earlier research in environmental psychology has shown that architectural parameters such as stimulation (intensity, variety, complexity, mystery, novelty, noise, light, odor, color, crowding, visual exposure, proximity to circulation, adjacencies), coherence (legibility, organization, thematic structure, predictability, landmark, signage, pathway configuration, distinctiveness, floor plan complexity, circulation alignment, exterior vistas), affordances (ambiguity, sudden perceptual changes, perceptual cue conflict, feedback), control (crowding, boundaries, climatic and light controls, spatial hierarchy, territoriality, symbolism, flexibility, responsiveness, privacy, depth, interconnectedness, functional distances, focal point, sociofugal furniture arrangement), and restoration (minimal distraction, stimulus, shelter, fascination, solitude) are closely linked to the perception of positive and negative stress.
What can Interior Design Health Provide?
We deliver the promise of quality, efficient and responsive environments for new or renovated spaces. Through engagement with users, our extensive experience and network of national and international experts we can provide specific guidance and design briefings to promote user health, efficiency and ensure that your environment remains competitive in the market. By providing a meaningfulness to their workplace we ensure an attractive workplace. *
*This is important to many offices, beyond health, but how are we going to attract employees?
The key of salutogenic components is to identify risk factor (stressor) within the built environment and through the salutogenic design principal strengthen sense of coherence and copying strategy to manage stress. The quality of built environment as context of workplace should strengthen the sense of coherence that include; (1) ‘environmental comprehensibility’ that requires environmental orderliness, predictability and legibility. This includes, for instance, the importance of creating visual order in the built environment with legible, intuitive way-finding, the elimination of visual chaos, etc. (2) ‘Environmental manageability’ requires effective familiarity and social support, and (3) ‘Environmental meaningfulness’ requires the provision of visual and aesthetic meaning, interest with positive stimuli, satisfaction and attendant spaces for contemplation and restoration of mind within the built environment.
