| Title |
A Comparative Study on Healing Environment Elements and WELL Building Standard Criteria for Interior Environment Design of Geriatric Hospitals |
| Authors |
고가로(Gao, Jialu) ; 김인성(Kim, In-sung) |
| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.14774/JKIID.2020.29.1.072 |
| Keywords |
Geriatric hospital; Healing environment elements; WELL Building Standard; Certificate criterion; Body system |
| Abstract |
This study compares WELL building standard criteria with healing environment elements which have been examined in Korean researches dealing with the interior environments of geriatric hospitals. It aims to provide basic standards for the development of Korean interior environment design of geriatric hospital utilizing the brand new standard for human-focused design. After analyzing 28 related Korean papers focusing on healing design elements and categories, the study suggested 4 categories of Element-classification and 8 categories of Performance-classification. WELL strategies and concepts were explored for the next step, and 4 concepts(Air, Light, Comfort, Mind), 43 criteria, and 85 parts were selected for healing interior design of geriatric hospitals.
Finally, the study generated a big table to compare all the elements and criteria of both WELL and healing environment elements. Comfort and Safety categories of Performance-classification showed the biggest relationships with WELL criteria, while Mind concept of WELL appeared to be related with all categories of the healing environment classification. The study also figured out that cardiovascular, endocrine, immune, nervous, and respiratory system of human body would be much influenced by interior design of healing environment. |