Thinking about Healing Landscape Design from Environmental Psychology Perspective
Journal: Architecture Engineering and Science DOI: 10.32629/aes.v3i2.825
Abstract
With the rapid development of the economy and the improvement of people's living level, people's material conditions and activities are enriched at the same time, and the efficient living methods have also brought huge pressure to people. Life and work have led to the emergence of sub-health. What's more serious is that various diseases appeared. In severe cases, depression and other conditions may occur. Therefore, our physical therapy and psychological therapy are receiving more attention to the requirements of new effective medical tools. At the same time, world-wide problems are getting worse, medical care has become the major expenditure in many countries/regions, and it increase significantly as the average age increases. As a new type of garden, healing garden is gradually being adopted seriously. From a psychological point of view, people need a mental and physical healing environment. This article analyzes some of the effects of different environments on the mental and physical healing from the perspective of sensory (vision, hearing, smell, touch and other senses).
Keywords
healing, vision, taste, tactile, tearing
Funding
China Scholarship Council [202107820002]
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