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Abstract
The application of biophilic design metrics in healthcare buildings has positive impact on enhancing users’ health and their emotional wellbeing. Moreover, the thoughtful applications of these metrics can resolve the noticed division between human need and buildings performance. So, these metrics should be taken into consideration since the beginning of the design of intensive care units (ICUs).
This thesis aims to enhance the quality of both the views-out and indoor daylighting in ICU patient rooms, through the biophilic design approach, which will consequently improve patient’s health, sleep, and reduce his stress levels. In order to achieve this goal, two methods (deductive/ inductive) followed by two tools were used.
The first tool was a theoretical study of; the biophilic design concept, its metrics and their design considerations, intensive care units (ICUs) design parameters and considerations, buildings that successfully incorporated biophilic patterns in their design, and the methods used for enhancing both the views-out, and indoor daylighting quality in patients’ rooms. As well as, methods used for enhancing ICUs medical process to promote user health and experience. This is in order to cover all the definitions, concepts, design considerations needed for the case study.
The second one was an analytical study used to enhance daylighting performance and the views-out of the chosen ICU single patient room case study through the thoughtful applications of biophilic design daylighting and views-out metrics. And that was through using simulation/optimisation analysis, to identify the optimal design of the parametric combined light shelf installed over the chosen case study window, which achieves both daylighting and the views-out metrics. And through, using survey analysis to measure the quality of case study proposed views-out, through measuring people degree of satisfaction towards these proposed views-out designs, which is based on the biophilic approach. The thesis findings resulted from discussing and analysing the results of base case performed daylighting simulation and case study multi-objective optimisation. As well as, discussing the findings of the performed questionnaire, aims to introduce the application techniques used in the case study that led to enhancement of daylighting and the views-out quality of this case study, which consequently leads to improvement of patient’s health. Moreover, it aims to introduce proposed application techniques for enhancement of daylighting and views-out quality of different ICU patient room cases.