Our environment consists of places we live, work, spaces, stress, buildings, and infrastructures. These spaces or spaces have an effect on humans activities which leads to their health and wellness. As an example, poor sidewalks can conclude obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and much more. A healthy environment must be aware of the connection between health and built environments, developed and shared tools including best practices, value, and commitments from members and others. To achieve these four factors, designers must keep in mind how healthy we can be by the way our buildings and communities function.
By improving the quality of transportation, clean air, clean water, access to healthy food, and designed for active living, we can step toward a good design environment. There are two ways to look at this; traditional and alternative. If we look at this through tradition, we will follow facts created by scientific experiences. These facts are clear and have sets of rules. But sometimes, it doesn’t serve “pathos”! It’s just about “logos.” On the other hand, alternatives take a step away from facts and science and look through the lens of experience. It pays attention to feelings. As an example, we can look at traditional medicine and alternative medicine. Sometimes we have to take pills or surgery; sometimes, we can fix the problem with chiropractic, an alternative healing method.
In terms of the built environment, besides paying attention to the facts “traditional medicine” behind designing a space or a place, we also have to pay attention to the “alternative medicine” side of it too and ask the question of: will this solution help human health and wellness? Will people feel well in this space or place? And then, alternative solutions will help with the answers to these questions.
In the practice of adaptive reuse on multiple scales, I believe that alternative ideas can help more than traditional ideas. They give you more options to experiment with different experiences and results, which you can’t get from traditional solutions that come with facts, logos, and ethos. Pathos plays a much more critical role in the well-being of the built environment.
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