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

总部位于多伦多的Kirkor Architects and Plumbers专门为不断增长的城市人口的需求提供创新解决方案。该公司寻求新颖的建筑解决方案，以促进“新常态”下建筑居住者的健康-远程工作，在家学习和在家休闲的趋势预计将持续到COVID-19大流行之后。Kirkor寻求对如何将亲生物特征--增强健康结果的自然元素--融入未来建筑设计的经验理解。因此，亨伯团队将通过实验测试能够融入建筑基础设施的假定亲生物特征的类型（例如，室内植物、粮食作物、自然意象和观赏鱼）的保健作用。主要见解将包括：（i）与生物特征相互作用以促进健康的最有效手段，从被动暴露到主动参与式园艺和教育;（ii）增强健康所需的暴露时间。Kirkor将运用这些见解来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护加拿大人的健康。

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.