ENRICHING CO-WORKING SPACES WITH BIOPHILIC DESIGN: ITS IMPACT IN ENHANCING USER PREFERENCE

Humans have an innate love of nature. As a result of rapid advances and technological developments, our relationship with nature is growing increasingly distant. Due to urbanization, people have lost touch with nature and have restricted access to greenery and open spaces. Modern lifestyles do influence the occupants to work longer periods in order to deal with enormous workloads and achieve deadlines. A majority of the co-working occupants are stressed, dealing with challenging emotions that lead to an unhealthy lifestyle. Studies indicate that if natural elements are used in a built work environment, it enhances well-being of people by helping them reconnect with the natural elements such as water, ventilation, colours, scents, natural lighting, a practise known as ‘biophilic design’. Modern co-working spaces are designed to foster community by providing users with shared spaces. Effectiveness and comfort of the occupants’ reign supremacy, serving as a foundation for productivity, collaboration, creativity and the development of professional networks. The findings demonstrated that current biophilic design patterns greatly improve coworkers’ emotional well-being and may be utilised as a design guideline. Furthermore, this study looked into different ways of applying biophilic design patterns, which might impact the quality of biophilic encounters and thus increasing user Occupancy Rate. The study’s practical implications are aimed at investors, managers, and designers, who willbe able to implement better co-working solutions and focus their budgets on biophilic elements, spatial designs and functional qualities which enrich and enhance the user preference at co-working spaces.

KEYWORDS: Co-Working, Biophilic Attributes, User Occupancy, Nature Connectedness.


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