Overview
- Enables readers to gain an overview of the challenges and opportunities that workplaces offer in increasing physical activity over the working day
- Offers a direct linkage between the layout of office spaces and the impacts on occupants' movement as well as their overall health and well-being
- Identifies the main approaches to designing to promote public health through design task alone
- Equips readers with new information based on experimental and empirical analyses (qualitative and quantitative) on the methods in which architecture interacts and influences occupants' activities, mobility, and space-use
- Reinforces the basic principles of designing for indoor office layouts as well as for promoting physical activity through real-life analysis, data collection, and modelling
- Enriches understanding of the power of design on its occupants' decisions and opportunities for health
- Updates readers involved in epidemiology and the research of public health promotion on new ways in which the architecture of spaces can influence behavioural changes as well as decision-making towards healthier and more physically active lifestyles
- Maximizes reader insights into the interdisciplinary topic of designing indoor workplace environments that can improve everyday lifestyles
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Public Health (BRIEFSPUBLIC)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Physical Activity and Disease: Theory and Practice
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Space-Use and the History of the Office Building
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Research Methods
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Identifying Influential Office Architectural Design Factors of Movement
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Keywords
- public health
- interdisciplinary architecture
- design and health
- physical activity and environmental architecture
- workplace environmental design
- design impacts on health
- health and sustainable workplaces
- occupant space use
- space use and chronic disease prevention
- built environment
- place and health
- occupational health and well-being
- worksite health promotion
- lifestyle and behavior
About this book
This concise volume analyzes the potential for the workplace environment—where so many people spend so much of their day—to improve workers’ capacity for health and wellness. It pinpoints the link between sedentary lifestyles and poor health, and explores the role of office spatial design in encouraging physical activity to promote physical activity, health and prevent disease. The featured research study tracks workers’ movement in a variety of office layouts, addressing possible ways movement-friendly design can co-exist with wireless communication, paperless offices, and new corporate concepts of productivity. From these findings, the author’s conclusions extend public health concepts to recognize that influencing population-wide levels of activity through office architectural design alone may be possible.
This SpringerBrief is comprised of chapters on :
- Physical activity and disease: Theoryand practice
- Space-use and the history of the office building
- Identifying factors of the office architectural design that influence movement,
- Interdisciplinary research methods in studying worker physical activity, decision-making and office design characteristics
- The KINESIS model for simulating physical activity in office environments
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Stamatina Th. Rassia is an architect engineer holding a diploma in Architecture Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in Greece. She has an MPhil in Environmental Design in Architecture and a PhD in Architecture from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Dr. Rassia is an expert on topics of public health promotion by architectural design.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Workplace Environmental Design in Architecture for Public Health
Book Subtitle: Impacts on Occupant Space Use and Physical Activity
Authors: Stamatina Th. Rassia
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Public Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53444-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-53443-5Published: 11 April 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-53444-2Published: 04 April 2017
Series ISSN: 2192-3698
Series E-ISSN: 2192-3701
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 94
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations
Topics: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Interior Architecture and Design, Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine, Epidemiology