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Connection with Natural Systems

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We always admire when we see a bird chirping outside our window, as it develops a relaxing and reassuring feeling within us. Its soothing sound lifts our mood in a positive way. We always think what we can do to bring nature’s pattern into our lives? Can we really adapt the nature’s pattern and bring changes to our lives? So sometimes when we see birds visiting our window or rooftop, we love to install a birdhouse for them with some food and water which attracts them towards it and looking at them we feel so connected to NATURE. As we have seen in our previous blog how a space with naturally connecting environment brings in well being and stimulates our senses. We have often seen that seasonal patterns and temporal changes have a great effect on human eye. With changing color and vibrancy our eyes adapt different lights from season to season. Our color perception is affected with different seasons. So in built environment if we incorporate a rooftop garden in offices or a garden in bal
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Dynamic and Diffuse Light

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In our previous blog of  Nature in the Space  we understood that how sun distinctly changes the light and shadow that stimulates our mood in a positive way. Let me just make it simple for you to understand when we go to buy a house the first thing which comes in our mind is the daylighting of the house.  Our eyes is always looking for huge window openings, cross ventilations and a beautiful view from the window as it fulfils our requirement of seeing the task and space well without using electric lighting. With an efficient daylight, we can reduce the usage of artificial lighting that helps us to be fruitful, calm, healthier and cheerful. We also save a lot on our electricity cost. The play of light and shadow provide users with lighting options that stimulate the eye and hold attention in a manner that engenders a positive psychological or physiological response, and to help maintain circadian system functioning. In our built environment it can be achieved with placing windows, skyli
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Presence of Water

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          Have you ever thought why beach houses are so popular? Whenever we are planning for an outing on a weekend, one of the ideas that come in our mind easily is, LET’S HIT THE BEACH. What is at a beach that attracts us so much? It’s the sea.            The calming waves hit the shore making a certain sound with each wave has a certain impact on our minds. The light breeze makes us feel refreshed, lively and lightens our mood. When we are working our busy schedule in an urban environment, our mind gets tired and so on a weekend such a break will make us feel more refreshed and it boosts our energy for the next week. You must be thinking how it is even possible to take such a break every weekend, Right? So what if I told you that the same experience of a refreshing environment you can get on a daily basis in your built environment! Built environments like offices, home, hospitals and so on can have the a few qualities that can divert your mind for a while for good.            A bui
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Thermal and airflow variability

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In our previous blog of visual connection with nature, we saw how it is important to have a window with a view of nature in order to stay connected. This pattern is related to visual connection with nature in a way that it not only provides us with daylight and a view but also breeze. This concept is very simple to understand as it has been going on for ages and it points out the importance of windows in a space. The circulation of air is most important for human comfort. It is already known to people that why is ventilation required in a space. It keeps the room fresh. The space with more windows with natural air and daylight coming in, will always be better than space with a small window. This pattern evolves from looking at the effects of natural ventilation. This pattern is meant to mimic the actual nature in terms of temperature changes with different seasons and weathers in the built Environment. There are many changes in temperature, in the direction of sunrays and thus forming
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NON-RHYTHMIC SENSORY STIMULI

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Have you ever been mentally and visually engaged by a cloth hanging in your balcony to dry up moving slowly and irregularly with the wind and your mind is not able to guess its next direction of flow? That’s exactly what this means, I’m sure it is experienced by each and everyone. Before we understand the topic in detail we need to understand the title so let’s break down the title, Non rhythmic means irregular, not uniform, something which is free, sensory means relating to your physical senses, an ability to sense things around yourself, and stimuli means a response to some activity, causes development or interest, so Non Rhythmic Sensory Stimuli means a human response to an irregular activity occurring naturally in the environment. In one of our previous blog titled as Visual connection with nature, we have mentioned how staying connected with nature helps in human well being in spaces like residences, workspaces, health care and so on. This pattern usually overlaps the previous pat
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NON-VISUAL CONNECTION WITH NATURE

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In the previous blog, we saw how visual connection with nature benefits our overall health and affects our mind in a positive way. It took care of one sense of the human body and that is vision, but what about the other 4 senses? If by engaging only one sense can be so impactful on our mind and body, imagine how much the other senses including the first one will make an impact on us. The other four senses include the sense of smell, the ability to hear, the sense of taste, the feeling of touch. These senses can be experienced separately, although the experience is multiplied and the health effect is intensified if multiple senses are experienced at the same time or engaged together as one experience. Now imagine yourself walking barefoot on a beach with your eyes closed and feeling the cool and pleasant breeze on your skin, the sound of waves crashing to the shore hitting your ears and you are moving towards the water feeling the texture of slightly warm sand, and as you keep
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VISUAL CONNECTION WITH NATURE

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The connection we all have with each other as a human being depicts that no one in the world can live alone. People have emotions and feelings for everything around themselves. But what about the planet we live in? The nature that existed way before humans, before money, before our greed, do we really take care of the nature we got as a gift? Do we feel for nature? We all need each other to survive and so it is important to take care of nature and its resources as we take care of our loved ones. We feel happy when we are connected with our loved ones and same goes for nature, the constant connectivity with nature is important in order to stay healthy and happy. In the previous blogs, we have stated multiple times how connection with nature in any way is beneficial for the human kind. In the previous blog of nature in the space, we understood the meaning of visual connection with nature. There is also a variety of views which are either preferred or not. Some of the preferred vi
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