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Accelerate Live! Health Generating Buildings

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In all project types, users no longer passively accept environments- they discern, looking for spaces that meet their needs and preferences. At the same time, changing trends in the construction market affect the quality of building and innovation available. Let’s discuss a value driven design process using applied research to target the specific user behaviors driving operational and management costs and revenues. Let’s talk about a fundamental shift in how space is thought of using behavior change and salutogenic (health generating) design as a value proposition to generate new typologies and space fusions. We share design hacks pinpointing specific aspects of the built environment that affect behavior, well-being and performance to help clients get more success out of their spaces. Our predictive outcome modelling of feeling, thinking, and doing helps clients make strategic design investments that enhance user and building performance while minimizing behaviors that can lead to more negative outcomes such as injuries, poor health or mistakes. Design can be leveraged to impact our client’s stated desires/bottom line. Designing the architectural experience is rooted in true empathy, designing technically superior work is rooted in craft. When it all works together, architecture elicits joy.

Angela Mazzi, AIA, ACHA, EDAC is a Senior Associate and medical planner at GBBN where she focuses on enhancing quality of life through built environments-connecting great design with user needs.

Marcene Kinney, AIA, LEED AP is a principal and market director at GBBN Architects. Marcene leads her team’s exploration and focus to do more than merely solve functional architectural problems for clients.

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