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 Volume 9, Issue 7 (July 2022), Pages: 84-99

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 Original Research Paper

Restoration characteristics of the internal healing environments: The specialty of visually extended space neighboring multi-story housing

 Author(s): Rawan Hasan Abdulrazaq *, Ghada M. Younis

 Affiliation(s):

 Department of Architecture, College of Engineering, University of Mosul, Mosul, Iraq

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9116-6636

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 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2022.07.010

 Abstract:

The concept of restoration is linked to the objectives achieved by the design characteristics of the internal space that support users' physical and mental health in recovery, improvement, vitality in performance, and stimulation of activity. The research addressed the design characteristics that give restoration features to the internal spaces as a design strategy to support the health of the individuals, that by adopting one of those characteristics which are the visually extended views neighboring, which is required for multi-story housing buildings through the views achieved by the permeability of the residential unit with the neighboring nature. The research, in its methodology, relied on getting a theoretical framework for the main items of the characteristics of the restoration spaces through the direct and indirect impact on the physical, mental and psychological health of the residents. The objectives of the research are concerned with discovering the impact of visual extended factors achieved by the external boundaries of the residential unit on its natural surroundings, a selected sample of 10 housing projects in Erbil/Iraq was measured. The research hypothesis was tested using Isovist-graph software for one of the comprehensive visual characteristics of the optical axes (Entropy), which determines the amount of comprehensive information about the internal spaces that can be known from the point of entry. The conclusion is the impact of the visual depth on the formation of axes of the visual extended that is held by a relationship of the external natural boundaries of the residential unit, and therefore the diversity in the visual characteristics of the spaces extending outside, which give the renewal and vitality to the spaces used.

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 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Restoration, Psychological health, Multistory housing, Entropy

 Article History: Received 17 December 2021, Received in revised form 7 April 2022, Accepted 20 April 2022

 Acknowledgment 

No Acknowledgment.

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Some or all data, models, or codes that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request; all data, models, and codes generated or used during the study appear in the submitted article.

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 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Abdulrazaq RH and Younis GM (2022). Restoration characteristics of the internal healing environments: The specialty of visually extended space neighboring multi-story housing. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 9(7): 84-99

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