My first project will focus on the relationship of environment and health. The question I always ask myself is “what is health place”?
According to the WHO: health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
Therefore, a health space is a place where make people complete relax, feel comfortable, and be mentally and physically harmonious. They need to be satisfied by the human needs. So we need to look at “what is human’s need?” and “what do they want and be aware by environment?”
First, let me talk about the theory of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
In this pyramid, I can separate the 5 needs into 2 parts. The first one is physiological, second part is psychological (also means mental one). The higher needs in this hierarchy only come into focus when the lower needs in the pyramid are satisfied. The lower needs of physiological and safety belongs to physiological, the contents of physiological are “Excretion/ Eating/ Sex/ Drinking/ Sleeping/ Shelter/ Warmth”. It’s including lots of natural elements such like sun/ food/ water / air. There are plenty of examples of connecting the environment with the natural elements. Another one is safety need, its contents including “Personal security from crime, Financial security, Health and well-being, Safety net against accidents/ illness and the adverse impacts.”
When we consider the factors of develop a space, not only should the physiological needs be satisfied, moreover, the mental needs need to be cared.
In the middle of this pyramid is love and belongs, in another word, we need friendship, intimacy, having a supportive and communicative Family. People need to be acceptance. When I transform the meaning into a spatial need, we need both socializing and privacy.
Next one is ego, also called esteem needs. All humans have a need to be respected, to have self-esteem, self-respect, and to respect others. The contents of this one including we hope we are individual and unique one; we need to be recognized by people and can present our self to others. It is involved with territoriality and related with safety needs.
In the top is self-actualization, In Maslow's scheme, the final stage of psychological development comes when the individual feels assured that his physiological, security, affiliation and affection, self-respect, and recognition needs have been satisfied. As these become dormant, he becomes filled with a desire to realize all of his potential for being an effective, creative, mature human being.
Also, psychological imbalances such as depression can also prevent one from obtaining self-esteem on both levels. In modern society, we live in rich countries, we all know the physical health has improved, but obviously, mental problem is more than we can image. The tense of daily hustle and bustle, unhealthy lifestyle such like eat more but move less, the improve of technology lead people lose the “face to face” ability, too many information to deplete the life energy. The 24/7 life style make people get lost in daily life. The environment needs help to re-charge life energy, and find the way to cerate the properties of health- renewal, balance and development.
To be satisfied by these human needs, we can cope with lots of physiological and mental problems, as follow, I will show a case to analyzed how the space elements influence people, how people’s reaction by their surrounding.
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