Office architectural design and assessment

摘要

Over the past 40 years, studies in epidemiological, experimental clinical, and an environmental fields of research have proved that physical inactivity represents a major contributor to a number of worldwide chronic diseases (such as colon cancer, osteoporosis, type Ⅱ diabetes, and coronary heart disease). A substantial part of the adult lifestyle involves office work, which equates to a substantial amount of time spent seated at the desk. In adopting, health-related and social science monitoring techniques for measuring physical activity levels and methods of interact in architectural spaces, this project draws on the analysis of six office sites in the UK. As the research expresses its statement of relationships between activity and floor plans, it develops an architectural vocabulary for describing a building layout's inducement of physical activity, designating spatial 'attractors' and 'rewards' for 'voluntary' or 'imperative' movement. Overall, the novelty of this work is that it monitors free-living office environments and studies how architectural design may be assessed in order to improve physical activity through office task alone.