Arch 213: Ecological Issues in Architecture -Human & Building Health- -Building Biology

1. Arch 213: EcologicalIssues in Architecture -Human & Building Health--Building Biology Assist.Prof.Dr.Harun Sevinç Assist. Prof. Dr. Pınar Uluçay

2. Building and Human Health • According to WHO (World Health Organization), health is not only the disease to be absent or not being sick; but also totally being well physically, psychologically and socially. • In design, usage and maintenance stages – designers, architects, constructors, and producers have an important role. • These people have negative or positive impact on buildings. And buildings have impact on human life. • Every negatively affect causes people or buildings to be sick • Therefore unhealthy environments are created and sick buildings will cause health effects on people.

3. Terminology

4. Health relationship between building and human

5. Negative Effects of Human on Building /Sick Building • Architects and users are the factors of an unhealthy or healthy building: • Not defining the environmental factors and needs in usage and producing stage • Not reflecting these factors and needs to the design stage • Taking wrong design decisions will cause sick building • Cannot evaluate the resources (nature, people) optimally • Cannot reflect the design to production • Gives wrong production decisions.

6. Users can be also one factor for creating an unhealthy environment by: • Changing the function of the building or not using the building according to its function, • Changes in environmental factors and needs • Not having regular maintenance

7. The function of a building is to meet the users’ needs at the most basic level: • -to survive in healthy conditions- • In a model for determining the health effects caused by buildings are to examine for instance: • negative features of indoor and outdoor environments of the building • • negative conditions due to the reasons, • • hazardous effects on health • • health problems

8. Negative features of building on human health / unhealthy human

9. Building Biology • relationship between the building, its environment, and its users’ health, • aims to help construct healthier man-made environments. • defined as “a scientific field which attempts to prevent the negative effects on people’s lives by identifying the relationships between the building, its environment and its users, while setting and controlling the rules to direct the design, construction and usage of building in terms of its users’ health” (Öztürk and Balanlı 1995).

10. Building Biology • This scientific field is not only interested in benefiting its user, but also examines the living and non-living environments as a whole.