The First Meeting of the Architecture and Health Group

June 22, 2017

On 22 June 2017, the first meeting of the Architecture and Health group was held at New Wave Architecture office with the presence of the founders/members of this group, Ms. LidaAlmasian, Ms. Rana Saghazade, Mr. Amirabbas Aboutalebi and Mr.Shahin Heidari.

On 22 June 2017, the first meeting of Architecture and Health group was held at New Wave Architecture office with the presence of the founders/members of this group, Ms. LidaAlmasian, Ms. Rana Saghazade, Mr. Amirabbas Aboutalebi and Mr.Shahin Heidari.

The main goal of the group is facilitating conversations about designing buildings for health and wellbeing. Future dialogues can be formed among the fields of architecture, medicine, engineering and management on optimizing architectural design to improve health.

Some concepts discussed in this first meetings are the combination of field of medicine and architecture, concept and healing architecture. The team discussed it would be beneficial to hold educational sessions in the future namely on the subjects of EBD (evidence base design), design to improve mental and physical health, and design to help manage symptoms and improve quality of life.