Workplace Environmental Design in Architecture for Public Health

TRAMA

This concise volume analyzes the potential for the workplace environment—where so many people spend so much of their day—to improve workers’ capacity for health and wellness. It pinpoints the link between sedentary lifestyles and poor health, and explores the role of office spatial design in encouraging physical activity to promote physical activity, health and prevent disease. The featured research study tracks workers’ movement in a variety of office layouts, addressing possible ways movement-friendly design can co-exist with wireless communication, paperless offices, and new corporate concepts of productivity. From these findings, the author’s conclusions extend public health concepts to recognize that influencing population-wide levels of activity through office architectural design alone may be possible. This SpringerBrief is comprised of chapters on :          Physical activity and disease: Theory and practice         Space-use and the history of the office building         Identifying factors of the office architectural design that influence movement,         Interdisciplinary research methods in studying worker physical activity, decision-making and office design characteristics         The KINESIS model for simulating physical activity in office environmentsThe questions and potential for solutions in Workplace Environmental Design in Architecture for Public Health will interest and inform researchers in interdisciplinary topics of public health and architecture as well as graduate and post-graduate students, architects, economists, managers, businesses as well as health-conscious readers.

SOMMARIO

PrefaceContentsGlossaryList of SymbolsIntroduction: Office environmental design and public health: The challengeA.1 AimsPART ONE Physical Activity and Disease: Theory and PracticeChapter 1 Physical Activity and Health Promotion1.1 Physical activity and public health recommendation1.2 Interdisciplinary approach to physical activityPART TWO Space-use and the History of the Office BuildingChapter 2 Office Building: A Brief Historical Overview2.1 Ancient times2.2 Modern era2.3 From the 18th to the 20th century2.4 From the 20th century office site to the new workplace2.5 Current thinking and future design implicationsChapter 3 Current Office Design, User Activity, and Occupancy Evaluation3.1 IT integration in space: Impacts on activity and job interaction3.2 Effects of the design of offices on occupant activity and occupancy evaluation methodPART THREE Research Methods Chapter 4 Introduction to Methods for Measuring Activity 4.1 The difference between space-use topography and topology4.2 Physical activity measurement methods: Accuracy and costChapter 5 Selected Research Methods of Data Collection5.1 Method5.1.1 Direct observation5.1.2 Interview questionnaire5.1.3 Diaries and activity monitoringChapter 6 Research Data Collection6.1 Setting up the data collectionChapter 7 Data collection results PART FOUR Identifying Influential Office Architectural Design Factors of MobilityChapter 8 Statistical Analysis8.1 Models8.2 Participant characteristics8.3 Observation clustering8.4 Testing the research hypothesis8.5 Results and discussion8.5.1 Model 1. Results8.5.2 Model 2. ResultsChapter 9 KINESIS model9.1 The model 9.1.1 Justification of terms in the equation for U9.1.2 Method to calculate E for a given trip 9.2 Simulation9.2.1 A standard layout9.2.2 Modified layoutsChapter 10 Discussion10.1 Architecture, occupant activity, and the management of office space10.2 ChallengesConclusionAcknowledgmentsReferencesElectronic sources

AUTORE

Stamatina Th. Rassia is an architect engineer holding a diploma in Architecture Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in Greece. She has an MPhil in Environmental Design in Architecture and a PhD in Architecture from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Dr. Rassia is an expert on topics of public health promotion by architectural design.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9783319534435
• Collana: SpringerBriefs in Public Health
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm Ø 1825 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: XVIII, 94 p. 15 illus.
• Pagine Arabe: 94
• Pagine Romane: xviii