How can we as architects, engineers or health professionals design and construct spaces that solve specific needs, make citizens feel better and bring more quality to their lives?
There are too many glass windows, too many cold and nihilistic interiors in current constructions. Too many materials have been used that are harmful and have a large ecological footprint. An organism’s well-being is closely linked to the way it relates and interacts with its environment, and vice versa. There are external physical stimulants that affect us and accumulate, little by little, in our bodies and minds.
Spaces should not only work, excite and be beautiful, but above all, they have to be healthy, comfortable, safe and accessible. Increasing Well-being is the objective of health architecture.
The mission of the research group Healthy Architecture & City, founded in 2016, is to determine and develop the mechanisms, techniques and compositions necessary for the design of healthy and intelligent environments, focusing on improving people’s quality of life and well-being.
Our vision wants to share our findings concerning specific environments inhabited by people in the third and fourth ages and/or with cognitive functional difficulties.
We intend, through design and technique, to integrate the technological advances of the digital revolution, developing and implementing knowledge tools that we can use to learn from houses, buildings and cities with the aim of the latter becoming intelligent and interacting with human beings and providing safety, comfort and well-being..
TOPICS
FEATURED NEWS
ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE AMBIENT IN PATIENTS WITH ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
SALAMANCA / February 7, 2024. The relationships between the influence that physical environments and domestic spaces have on people with Alzheimer’s disease have been studied in the first doctoral thesis that addresses the impact that architecture has on…
TOWARDS A HEALTHY ARCHITECTURE (coda)
SEVILLE / December 15, 2022 Since February we have published eight posts in this blog, dedicated to explaining what Healthy Architecture is all about. It has been very satisfying to see the degree of interest and follow up that the successive instalments have...
FIVE BASIC PRINCIPLES of HEALTHY ARCHITECTURE (VIII)
SEVILLE / 11 November 2022. During the seven previous instalments dedicated to Healthy Architecture we have seen how a design oriented towards people's health produces social, economic and environmental benefits. Architecture, as the third skin that envelops...
WHAT WE RESEARCH
Lines of research
How to design for the absence of memory
Healthy architecture for ageing population
Implementation of Active and Assisted Living (AAL)
Ambiental Intelligence (AmI) Integration in architecture
Emerging technologies in construction
LINKS OF INTEREST
Carlos III Institute of Health
Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture
International Academy for Design and Health
Active and Healthy Living in the Digital World. European Commission
Healthy Ageing Public Procurement of Innovations. HAPPI
Featured blogs
Nosotros y ella, la arquitectura
SantiagoQuesada, architecture and research
Alzheimer’s State Reference Centre IMSERSO blog ↓
- 2024. The importance of the ambient in patients with Alzheimer’s disease
DISSEMINATION
Latest actions
Books
2022. Intervenciones en el Alcázar-Palacio de Estepa (Sevilla)
2020. Architecture, in book: The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities
Articles
2023. Towards a Healthy Architecture: A New Paradigm in the Design and Construction of Buildings
2022. La arquitectura de las infraestructuras o la construcción de paisajes contemporáneos
Papers
2024. Técnicas y materiales de la presa andalusí del desfiladero o garganta del ciervo (s. XII): Últimos hallazgos en una barrera fluvial de embalse de tradición constructiva oriental
2023. Long-Life Wellness from an Architectural Perspective: Design of Ambient Assisted Living for the Ageing Population and Persons with Cognitive Disabilities
Posters
Exhibitions
2023. The cultural landscape of the Almohad towers of the Sierra de Segura: A heritage to discover
GROW WITH US
Training
Doctoral Theses
Workshops, Seminars, Summer Courses
2023
Doctorate workshop: QGis data processing
2019
Memory + Architecture + Design. MAD an architectural research workshop
2018
Rural / Defensive Heritage of al-Andalus. The construction of a landscape
2015
La ciudad y la arquitectura de los museos
2010
Cuatro escenarios para la habitabilidad contemporánea
2008
Hogar Digital e Inteligencia Ambiental
2008
Patrimonio Industrial, Territorio y Proyecto Arquitectónico
5th International Workshop
2006
Imitación y Experiencia en el Proyecto Arquitectónico
4th International Workshop
2001
Migraciones, Mutaciones, Paisajes
3th International Workshop
2000
Paisajes, Redes, Comunicaciones
2nd International Workshop
1999
Patrimonio, Piedras, Paisaje
1st International Workshop
ABOUT US
Healthy Architecture & City is a research group at the University of Seville created in 2016. It is an integral part of the Andalusian Research Plan PAIDI 2020 in the Production Technologies area with code TEP-965. It consists of the following researchers:
Santiago Quesada-García
Lead researcher
Guillermo Pavón-Torrejon
Researcher
Julia Molino-Barrero
Researcher
María Lozano-Gómez
Researcher
Jose Manuel Mera-Gómez
Associate Researcher
Mª. Carmen Martínez-Quesada
Researcher
Pablo Valero-Flores
Researcher