Adopting Biophilic Designs in Rehabilitation Centers to Promote Addict's Health

Abstract

A growing body of scientific study indicates that humans need daily contact with nature to be productive and healthy, human evolves as part of nature, and are interdependent and interconnected to nature and other forms of life. Biophilia also supports the proposition that urban environments need to be integrated with 'nature' for psychological health benefits as well as environmental benefits. (6) This study, explore Biophilic designs and how they can be adopted in rehabilitation centres. Rehabilitation Centre offers treatment to people suffering from addiction. It provides facilities that reinstate human health as a result of negative traits and influence or challenges that may have been imposed on them willingly or unwillingly, hence resulting to negative life style. However, this study present how biophilic elements can be maximized in rehabilitation centers as a means to help patients recuperate faster and reinstate them from physical and mental damages as well as promoting their health and wellbeing. Hence, to achieve the aim, the study seeks to identity various biophilic elements in biophilia architecture; it investigates ways biophilic design can be integrated in design of rehabilitation centers where patients will dwell during their period of stay. It also to identify how patients can consciously engage in self-healing through the influence of biophilic designs. In order to present this research, the study based its methodology on review of existing literatures and case studies. The researcher studied rehabilitation centres locally and internationally in a bid to critically analyze existing situations of rehabilitation centres and invariably compare how often biophilic elements are adopted in the design of rehabilitation centres.