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Rethinking home designs: suicide prevention

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posted on 2024-01-18, 01:41 authored by Michael BoothMichael Booth, Pushpitha KalutaraPushpitha Kalutara, Neda AbbasiNeda Abbasi
Built environment design has a common purpose to construct environments for society to enjoy and occupy. However, it requires combining work and home occupation in challenging situations like lockdowns recently incurred by COVID-19. Home designs can benefit from further human wellness research impacts because numerous studies on improving workspace, productivity, and improving health and healing environments provide a substantial evidence base. Hence, this preliminary research will develop an economic cost-benefit analysis from its findings, to consider home design value aspects of safety, security, health, comfort, and family. Consequently, the considerations will lead to the recommendations of building standard changes required. This research reviewed existing built environment research into health and healing spaces including psychology, economics, and architectural design. The review further indicated comfort, safety, education, and access prevention as main modes to improve mental health by design. The research effort has also combined education by cross-disciplinary industries for improved societal wellbeing using environmental design for suicide prevention in homes. Building designs for improving health will support positive emotions and impacts, and current research reviews sensory impact of biophilia supportive healing environments, with social and spatial designs. These can connect to value management by considering economic cost/benefits of design changes as suicide prevention planning design.

History

Editor

Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors

Volume

2022

Issue

March- May

Start Page

47

End Page

53

Number of Pages

7

ISSN

2652-4023

Publisher

Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors

Place of Publication

Australia

Peer Reviewed

  • No

Open Access

  • No

Era Eligible

  • No

Journal

Built Environment Economist: Australia and New Zealand