Design for Well-being

The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design-19

The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design in Atlanta by The Miller Hull Partnership, Lord Aeck Sargent, a 2021 COTE Top Ten Award Recipient

Framework for Design Excellence: Design for Well-being

Good design supports health and well-being for all people, considering physical, mental, and emotional effects on building occupants and the surrounding community.

How can the design encourage a healthy lifestyle?
How can the project provide for greater occupant comfort?
How can the project be welcoming and inclusive for all?
How can the project connect people with place and nature?
How can material selection reduce hazards to occupants?

Focus topics

natural and artificial lighting
thermal comfort
indoor air quality
mental and social well-being
acoustics
movement /exercise
nourishment

High impact

Best practices

Resources

Projects

If you can do only one (or a few) thing(s):

Design interior and exterior paths and public and semi-public destinations to encourage positive informal social interaction among neighbors, acquaintances, and associates.
Provide operable windows in regularly occupied spaces.
Give occupants individual control over their immediate thermal and lighting systems.
Maximize indoor air quality through increased outside air and pollutant mitigation.
Include biophilic elements that engage a variety of senses.
Vary environments to promote physical activity.
Provide occupants with access to plentiful filtered drinking water.

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