The Role of Environmentally Responsible Interior Design in Healthcare for Enhanced Patient Well-being

Year 2024, Volume: 6 Issue: 1, 23 - 36, 16.04.2024

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https://doi.org/10.53472/jenas.1384245

Abstract

While the healthcare industry is struggling with environmental impacts, it is also trying to bring together holistic design practices to create sustainable, patient-centered and ecologically responsible, energy-efficient healthcare areas. With the increase in studies focusing on the positive effects of the ecological design approach on the well-being and recovery processes of patients, the integration of green elements into healthcare structures becomes even more important. Integration of environmentally responsible design (ERD) principles into hospital interior design; It contributes significantly to reducing carbon emissions, resource consumption and environmental waste. At the same time; by optimizing energy-efficient systems, adopting sustainable materials, and creating patient-centered healing spaces by utilizing natural light and natural ventilation, it can be both contributed to the treatment process and reduce carbon footprints. This study proposes a new approach that integrates ERD elements with healthcare interior design. Recognizing that the built environment and human health are interconnected, the research examines innovative design strategies to promote healing through environmentally responsible interior design (ERID). The focus of this approach is on combining ERD strategies such as healing design, patient-centered design, evidence-based design and the use of sustainable materials, daylight, natural ventilation, energy-efficient design, sustainable design, biophilic design. As a result of this integration, by drawing attention to the role that patient-centered green interior designs play in improving the health and well-being of patients and the efforts to minimize the negative effects of hospitals on the environment. Also, it is aimed to encourage the health and construction sectors in this sense and proposed a path towards a green future.

Keywords

Environmentally Responsible İnterior Design, Healthcare Buildings, Patient Wellbeing, Healing Environment

Çevre Sorumlu İç Mekân Tasarımının Sağlık Yapılarında Kullanımının Hasta Sağlığı Üzerindeki Rolü

Abstract

Sağlık sektörü geldiği nokta itibari ile bir yanda çevresel etkilerle boğuşurken, diğer bir yanda sürdürülebilir, hasta odaklı ve ekolojik açıdan sorumlu, enerji-etkin sağlık hizmetleri alanları yaratmak için bütüncül tasarım uygulamalarını bir araya getirme çabası içindedir. Ekolojik tasarım yaklaşımının hastaların iyi olma ve iyileşme süreçleri üzerindeki olumlu etkilerine odaklanan çalışmalardaki artışla beraber de yeşil unsurların sağlık yapılarına entegrasyonunu daha da önemli hale getirmektedir. Çevresel açıdan sorumlu mimari ilkelerinin hastane iç mekân tasarımına entegrasyonu; karbon emisyonlarının, kaynak tüketiminin ve çevresel atıkların azaltılmasında önemli ölçüde katkı sağlamaktadır. Aynı zamanda; enerji verimli sistemleri optimize ederek, sürdürülebilir malzemeleri benimseyerek, doğal ışık ve doğal havalandırmadan yararlanarak hasta-odaklı iyileştiren mekanların oluşturulması sayesinde hem tedavi sürecine katkı sağlanabilir hem de karbon ayak izlerinin azaltılması sağlanabilir.
Bu çalışma, çevre sorumlu tasarım unsurlarının, sağlık yapıları hizmetleri ve iç mekân tasarım kriterleri ile bütünleştiren yeni bir yaklaşım önermektedir. Yapılı çevre ile insan sağlığının birbiriyle bağlantılı olduğunu kabul eden araştırma, çevre sorumlu iç mekân tasarımı yoluyla iyileşmeyi teşvik edecek yenilikçi tasarım stratejilerini irdelemektedir. Bu yaklaşımın odağında, iyileştiren tasarım, hasta-odaklı tasarım, kanıta dayalı tasarım öğeleri ile sürdürülebilir malzemelerin kullanımı, gün ışığı, doğal havalandırma, enerji-etkin tasarım, sürdürülebilir tasarım, biyofilik tasarım gibi çevre sorumlu tasarım stratejilerinin birleştirilmesi yer almaktadır. Bu entegrasyonun sonucu olarak geleceğin sağlık yapılarında; hasta odaklı yeşil mekân tasarımlarının, hastaların sağlığını ve refahını geliştirmede oynadığı role ve hastanelerin çevreye olan olumsuz etkilerinin maksimumda minimize etmeye çalışılmasına dikkat çekilerek, sağlık ve yapı sektörünü bu anlamda teşvik etmek hedeflenmektedir.

Keywords

Çevre Sorumlu İç Mekân Tasarımı, Sağlık Yapıları, Hasta Sağlığı, İyileştiren Çevre

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