Naturalism As Bridge For Integrated Built Environment

The inquiry of environmental psychology demonstrates that human have an inherent positive effective dependence with specific natural elements and settings,such responses do not befall when modern urban has exposed human to devoid settings of nature. This observation displays that our estrangement from nature can bring negative impact in our life. Also the increase of modern life brought less actual nature in architectural field. Although, more recently, there has been a turn to the natural form in buildings and it seems that be a renewed liking to integrate nature and architecture. Shopping malls as places for various activities that are more utilitarian and hedonic rather than actual shopping have become a social and recreational meeting place to attract youngsters and seniors. Integration of green in shopping atmosphere can play significant role to moderate stressful experiences that maybe take place in such areas. Also change in mood would be occurred according to existent literature on 'biophilic' effects and its reason on negative states mitigation like stress.

Autorentext

Mina Amini was born in 1982 in Iran. She has obtained her Bachelor degree in Architectural Field in 2008 and her research was about the philosophy of Music in Architecture. In 2009, she started Master program in Landscape Architecture in University Putra Malaysia and graduated in 2011. she focused on the integration of Landscape and Architecture.