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Healthy Habitats: The Role of Architecture in the Human Relationship with Nature
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Beelman, Amanda M.
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1116350931
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Year and Degree
2005, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of).
Abstract
As cultural values change and an increasing number of people live in urban areas, we find ourselves leading lives that our separate from nature. Separation from nature can be detrimental to our physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental health. The thesis seeks to demonstrate how the human relationship with nature has changed in four categories of study – religion, science and technology, philosophy, and architecture and cities – and how this relationship remains today. After establishing that a problem exists, the thesis reveals a proposal for change: the use of architecture to reestablish and strengthen the connection between humans and nature. Through the implementation of a number of design methods – including natural building materials, integrated green space, daylighting, natural ventilation, and views to nature – architects and designers can make nature a part of our daily lives. We can design for sensory encounters with nature in the buildings in which we live, work, and play. The proposed project that illustrates the thesis is a college dormitory in downtown Chicago.
Committee
Robert Burnham (Advisor)
Pages
85 p.
Subject Headings
Architecture
Keywords
nature
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daylighting
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green space
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man and nature
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natural materials
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architecture and nature
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Beelman, A. M. (2005).
Healthy Habitats: The Role of Architecture in the Human Relationship with Nature
[Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1116350931
APA Style (7th edition)
Beelman, Amanda.
Healthy Habitats: The Role of Architecture in the Human Relationship with Nature .
2005. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1116350931.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Beelman, Amanda. "Healthy Habitats: The Role of Architecture in the Human Relationship with Nature ." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1116350931
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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