Abstract:
Rapid urbanisation is resulting in dense, overpopulated built environments dominated by
buildings and the hard infrastructure that services them. One of the negative outcomes of
urbanisation is the exclusion of living elements with the result that humans are increasingly
disconnected from living elements, with devastating effects on wellbeing and health, both for humans and remaining living environments.Spaces with features that enhance the user
environment in a positive way are all the more important today. Depression, stress, emotional trauma, anxiety, lifestyle disorders etc. are some of the issues that need to be addressed first to achieve calmness, inner healing and wellbeing. To deal with such issues., there has been an increasing demand for spaces that could in any way, connect people to the natural and rural settings, thus make them unlearn subconsciously, the ill modern lifestyle. It would then lead a person to a healthy and healed body. Adding elements of Nature to living spaces can presumably induce positively valued changes in cognition and emotion, which again may impact on stress level, health and well-being. Nature by having special futures, has positive effects on human’s health and can be a place for restoration from stress. Healing spaces for people who are suffering from stress-related issues is a concept which tries to take advantage of being passive and active in natural space.
