A study of nature-based design to promote well-being in the workplace

Abstract

The majority of people are now living in urban areas and this proportion will increase every year. We live in and are surrounded by the modern city, the man-made environment, and especially the workspace where we spent most of our time and a lot of time, we get stressed from work. Currently, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought the unprecedented way of work, social-distancing, and work from home. We are forced to work remotely, and though we can connect each other through devices, we still get stressed. One of the important reasons is that we are disconnected from nature, our healer. Actually, we are biologically and innately connected to nature, which is our natural habitat. This problem has triggered the author to seek a nature-based design that can help improve people’s well-being in the workspace environment. The author has studied a sustainable framework as a criterion and sorted the most related principle to use as the methodology. The results were the prototype design concept that aimed to offer a better mental and physical health to the new generation in the work context and leave some room in the design to urge their creativity and flexibility which are crucial in the future of work.