Defining <i>Domestic Environmental Experience</i> for Occupants’ Mental Health and Wellbeing
This study was stipulated by today’s limited living conditions of middle income households in Bangladesh who have economic constraints that contribute to hindering improvement of their existing domestic settings that may affect occupants’ mental health and wellbeing. The design of domestic living en...
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| description | This study was stipulated by today’s limited living conditions of middle income households in Bangladesh who have economic constraints that contribute to hindering improvement of their existing domestic settings that may affect occupants’ mental health and wellbeing. The design of domestic living environments tend to influence occupants’ emotions, feelings and moods. Thus, domestic environmental experiences need to be examined and incorporated into architectural design decisions. To understand the notion of such experiences, this study reviewed literatures concerning the related domains extensively. This study found the significant impact of domestic environments on human perceptions. Each design of domestic settings affects occupants’ emotional responses positively or negatively. Through this study, the term <i>domestic environmental experience</i> was defined as users’ experiences of cognitive perceptions and physical responses to their domestic built environment. In addition, it led to proposing the composition of domestic environmental experiences that need to be correlated with architectural design solutions. Nonetheless, this study did not examine the correlation where the emerging notion of Environmental Experience Design (EXD) may serve as the mediator. Accordingly, this new horizon of EXD research needs to be explored further with the aim to improve domestic built environments in Bangladesh which were the original driver of this research. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-740c09db84874377b4531f4bf36207b82023-11-20T08:48:41ZengMDPI AGDesigns2411-96602020-08-01432610.3390/designs4030026Defining <i>Domestic Environmental Experience</i> for Occupants’ Mental Health and WellbeingSajal Chowdhury0Masa Noguchi1Hemanta Doloi2ZEMCH EXD Lab, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, AustraliaZEMCH EXD Lab, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, AustraliaSmart Villages Lab, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, AustraliaThis study was stipulated by today’s limited living conditions of middle income households in Bangladesh who have economic constraints that contribute to hindering improvement of their existing domestic settings that may affect occupants’ mental health and wellbeing. The design of domestic living environments tend to influence occupants’ emotions, feelings and moods. Thus, domestic environmental experiences need to be examined and incorporated into architectural design decisions. To understand the notion of such experiences, this study reviewed literatures concerning the related domains extensively. This study found the significant impact of domestic environments on human perceptions. Each design of domestic settings affects occupants’ emotional responses positively or negatively. Through this study, the term <i>domestic environmental experience</i> was defined as users’ experiences of cognitive perceptions and physical responses to their domestic built environment. In addition, it led to proposing the composition of domestic environmental experiences that need to be correlated with architectural design solutions. Nonetheless, this study did not examine the correlation where the emerging notion of Environmental Experience Design (EXD) may serve as the mediator. Accordingly, this new horizon of EXD research needs to be explored further with the aim to improve domestic built environments in Bangladesh which were the original driver of this research.https://www.mdpi.com/2411-9660/4/3/26domestic built environmenthuman responsesenvironmental experience designmental health and wellbeing |
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| title | Defining <i>Domestic Environmental Experience</i> for Occupants’ Mental Health and Wellbeing |
| title_full | Defining <i>Domestic Environmental Experience</i> for Occupants’ Mental Health and Wellbeing |
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| title_short | Defining <i>Domestic Environmental Experience</i> for Occupants’ Mental Health and Wellbeing |
| title_sort | defining i domestic environmental experience i for occupants mental health and wellbeing |
| topic | domestic built environment human responses environmental experience design mental health and wellbeing |
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