New post-COVID-19 and nature-based, architectural solutions for enhancing personal wellness at home.

总部位于多伦多的Kirkor建筑师和规划师专门为不断增长的城市人口的需求提供创新的解决方案。该公司正在寻求新颖的建筑解决方案，以促进建筑物居住者的健康，以适应“新常态”--一种远程工作、在家学习和在家休闲的趋势，预计将在新冠肺炎大流行之后持续下去。Kirkor寻求经验上的理解，了解如何将亲生物特征--增强健康结果的自然元素--融入到他们未来的建筑设计中。因此，Humber团队将试验性地测试能够被纳入建筑基础设施(例如室内植物、粮食作物、自然图像和水族鱼)的各种假定的亲生物特征，以提高它们的健康效果。主要的见解将包括：(I)与促进健康的亲生功能互动的最有效手段，从被动接触到积极的参与性园艺和教育，以及(Ii)提高健康所需的暴露时间。Kirkor将把这些见解应用于开发数据支持的解决方案，以在生活和工作安排的快速变化中保障加拿大的健康。

Toronto-based Kirkor Architects and Planners specializes in innovative solutions to the demands of a growingurban populace. The company seeks novel architectural solutions to promote building occupant wellness forthe "new normal" - a trend of remote working, at-home learning and at-home leisure expected to persist beyondthe COVID-19 pandemic. Kirkor seeks empirical understanding of how biophilic features - natural elementsthat enhance wellness outcomes - can be integrated into their future architectural designs. The Humber teamwill therefore experimentally test types of putative biophilic features able to be incorporated into buildinginfrastructure (e.g., houseplants, food crops, nature imagery and aquarium fish) for their wellness-enhancingeffects. Key insights will include: (i) The most effective means of interacting with a biophilic feature forpromoting wellness, ranging from passive exposure to active, participatory gardening and education and (ii) theduration of exposure needed for enhanced wellness. Kirkor will apply these insights to developingdata-supported solutions for safeguarding Canadian wellness amidst rapid changes in living and workingarrangements.