Design Pre-thesis 3 | Sustainable Technologies

Mental health disorder is not a crime. It’s a global alarming nowadays as the reading is getting higher by years. Depression and anxiety is two most common mental illness cause by so many factors especially in this new era where competition among human being is inevitable. This condition is treatable not only by taking drug from medical lab but also naturally. As many don’t know sunlight is not only important for daily use as in working life, domestic use, human comfort, but it’s also provide various benefit for human health’s, especially when it’s come to psychological treatment. In term of architecture building façade and layout planning is very important to reach human comfort and how the façade can control the amount of natural light that will take place in certain area in order to reach restorative environment. This study is conducted to identify how building envelope can help to achieve the optimum sunlight while introducing a design that integrate with architecture of healing environment. Upon research its was identified that certain area and spaces in the planning need to be considered in order to achieve a building that can give comfort to the tenants especially from the Lux reading from simulation study. The result of the study is used to design and also experiment with few type of envelope strategy to obtain the optimum and adequate amount of Lux reading from sunlight to achieve human comfort.