Activating the concept of biophilia in administrative spaces to reduce covid 19

Document Type : Original Article

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interior and furniture design,faculty of applied art,6 Ocotber university,6 October university,egypt

Abstract

Between October 2020 and January 2021 and to this day, companies around the world have experienced a 50% drop in their sales on average due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This also led companies to think of alternative solutions to reduce the number of employees within the administrative spaces, to limit the spread of the unknown disease, and through this pandemic, the researcher believes that the designer can find solutions that help the user to deal with Covid 19 through innovative environmental technical solutions, By integrating the Biophilic design into the administrative spaces, as it restores the interior design to its correct environmental path and its role in improving the internal environment, the general health of the user, and the harmony between the user and the space, Biophilia is the way to link many benefits that occur when environmental concepts are applied to improve The design of administrative spaces as it is a vital design linked to nature and its positive impact on human health due to his need that is inherent in his connection with nature, Improving the user’s quality of life and technical design using different technologies such as virtual reality and sensors used in the interior space through continuous cleaning with disinfectants, air flow and temperature fluctuations and purification, without resorting to human intervention to reduce the spread of disease.

The research aims to prove that the Biophilic technical design has an impact on the user’s quality of life, not just an aesthetic or technological design, but rather it is concerned with the efficiency of the functional perception of the user in administrative spaces, maintaining his physiological and psychological health as much as possible, and limiting the spread of the virus among workers.

The results of the research are to take advantage of technical environmental design by rethinking the design of companies in this way, to preserve the health of workers from global epidemics and to improve employee happiness, and productivity in the workplace, which ultimately leads to the creation of a design through which companies recover economically, and It maintains its sales ratios and the user's psychological and physical health within the administrative space.

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