Experiencing Healthy Buildings: The Roles of Designers

  1. Experience designers are here to intervene, relying on data to shape the story of how we move through a space. Rendering courtesy of ARUP

  2. As we stand at the threshold of our shared indoor spaces, new questions arise: “How crowded is it?” “When was it last cleaned?” “What is the air quality?” Rendering courtesy of ARUP

  3. Health data needs to be translated for public consumption to transform it into meaningful and actionable information. Rendering courtesy of ARUP

  4. Building threshold’s are a critical place to intervene. A data dashboard can provide enough information in a sophisticated way to make the threshold a positive, confidence-building moment. Rendering courtesy of ARUP

  5. Office setting, photo courtesy of ARUP, sourced from Unsplash

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Since the beginning of the COVID pandemic, there has been a much greater consciousness about the ability of our buildings to protect and promote our personal health, including a growing literacy about the factors that contribute to the quality of our indoor environments. What roles do experience designers play in the health of our buildings? Gideon D’Arcangelo (Associate Principal, ARUP) explores this question in his article “Experiencing the Healthy Building.”