RESEARCH BLOG ON HEALTHY ARCHITECTURE
ARCHITECTURE FOR ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE. SMART HOUSING FOR PEOPLE WITH COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT*
SEVILLE / September 18, 2024. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is characterised by a diffuse and progressive disruption of brain function. In the population beyond the age of 65, the incidence of this disease rises
FUNDAMENTALS FOR AN EPISTEMOLOGY OF HEALTHY ARCHITECTURE: TEN POINTS AND FIVE PRINCIPLES*
SEVILLE / September 18, 2024. The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines health as a complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being, not just the absence of disease.
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...
DECALOGUE FOR A HEALTHY ARCHITECTURE (VII)
SEVILLE / 16 September 2022. After the well-deserved and warm summer break, we are resuming the long-awaited series on Healthy Architecture launched last January, in which we are exposing the genesis of this new paradigm that contemporary society is demanding in an...