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Patterns of Biophilia for Urban Senior Living
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Colley, Jennifer
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Year and Degree
2015, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
Abstract
The current practice of sustainable design often emphasizes metrics-based, quantitative means of reducing negative impacts of built form on the natural environment. For building typologies that serve potentially vulnerable populations, such as the aging, however, this practice has an added responsibility to evolve beyond the current mindset toward a human-centric design philosophy. Biophilia, defined as a love or empathy with the natural world, emerges as the overarching strategy to achieve the parallel goals of improving both human and environmental health. Using a hierarchy of theoretical and spatial patterns organized under the umbrella of biophilia, this thesis explores how an urban, university-linked retirement community can better address the environmentally-related issues surrounding the anxiety of aging.
Committee
John Eliot Hancock, M.Arch. (Committee Chair)
Michael Zaretsky, M.Arch. (Committee Member)
Pages
117 p.
Subject Headings
Architecture
Keywords
biophilia
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senior living
;
aging
;
university linked retirement community
;
sustainable design
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Colley, J. (2015).
Patterns of Biophilia for Urban Senior Living
[Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427898583
APA Style (7th edition)
Colley, Jennifer.
Patterns of Biophilia for Urban Senior Living.
2015. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427898583.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Colley, Jennifer. "Patterns of Biophilia for Urban Senior Living." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427898583
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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Patterns of Biophilia for Urban Senior Living by Jennifer Colley is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
This open access ETD is published by University of Cincinnati and OhioLINK.