Year: 2020
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The research addresses the concept of active housing design and recent advocates of health. There is sufficient health evidence show changes in neighborhoods, streets, and buildings design encourage physical activity regularly, as a part of people’s daily lives can be part of the solution to reduce risk factors and diseases. Inhibition of harmful behavior is an effective way to promote physical activity and encourage dynamic response is the most important in architecture. Therefore, interventions that promote physical activity are always accompanied by the addition of spatial value, and the built environment exerts potent effects on our health and well-being. As a result, the city had made a significant effort to encourage an integrated, small and connected community to increase opportunities for active transport, to reduce trip times between destinations and provide many recreational opportunities. A renewed understanding of these humanitarian needs to design buildings that influence behavioral patterns, design can discourage stable and passive behavior and it can enhance the attractiveness of healthy choices, building design has a significant impact on physical health, this understanding is not surprising because we spend most of our time at home.
Authors: Rana Mazin Mahdi, Kameelah A. Al-Kaissi
Institutions: University of Technology - Iraq, Mustansiriyah University
Language: English
Subfield: Transportation
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Funder: Mustansiriyah University
OpenAlex ID: W3042284099