Volume 8, Issue 8 (August 2021), Pages: 71-78

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: Psychologically supportive healing environment for sustainability in healthcare facilities: A case study

 Author(s): Tuğşad Tülbentçi *, Enis Faik Arcan

 Affiliation(s):

 Faculty of Architecture, Near East University, Nicosia, Cyprus

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0277-2920

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2021.08.010

 Abstract:

The design and construction of healthcare facilities are some of the significant foundations for the survival and healthy living of a happy society. In terms of the sustainable quality aspect in healthcare facilities, the structural safety and functional efficiency were primarily analyzed. In the further development, it turned into the healing healthcare centers together with the inclusion of aesthetic and cultural values as well as psychological and physical needs of individuals. With such developments, the concept of psychosocially supporting design has come into prominence through improving as a connection to nature, social support enhancement, stimulating design features, complexity, and coherence factors. Our article analyses the subject based on the indoor space planning elements for user’s psychological positive experience upon defining the factors with their spatial characteristics in consideration with the study regarding a conceptual model of the supportive healing environment. A hospital project, which is in the pre-design phase and still under development in the Near East University, was analyzed as the case study under this study. 

 © 2021 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Healthcare buildings, Healing environment, Psychosocially supporting design, Design analysis

 Article History: Received 18 September 2020, Received in revised form 24 January 2021, Accepted 21 May 2021

 Acknowledgment 

No Acknowledgment.

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 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Tülbentçi T and Arcan EF (2021). Psychologically supportive healing environment for sustainability in healthcare facilities: A case study. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 8(8): 71-78

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