published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Landscape Architecture

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Landscape Architecture

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Landscape Architecture

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Landscape Architecture

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Landscape Architecture

Hong Kong is facing an aging population problem in the coming years. This situation is especially appearing in the New Town such as Tseung Kwan O and Sha Tin. Therefore, healthcare facilities or healing landscape is an important design issue in the future. In the thesis, Haven of Hope Hospital is chosen to demonstrate the healing landscape design. It is a good site to provide an example of healing landscape for reference in the future. Haven of Hope Hospital is one of the hospitals in the Tseung Kwan O. It provides several different services in the local community such as Geriatrics and Rehabilitation, Pulmonary Care, Palliative Care and infirmary. These types of the service are very close to the quality of the environment. Therefore, healing landscape plays an important role in this type of hospital. At the same time, Tseung Kwan O is a new town, the main development is planning to provide more residential units now. That’s why, healthcare facilities are one of the important things for development in the future to fulfill the large amount of people. In the study, it shows that healing landscape is a medium for people to integrate the natural environment. It is a process to provide different level of healing effect to people such as stress reduction, relieving the pain and self mediation. In the thesis, relationship among the original hospital landscape, the patient character, and the types of building are found to figure out what healing landscape have to be designed. Some design concepts and theories provide suggestions and guidelines on designing the garden and choosing the plants. Some therapeutic programs can be considered to organize in the healing landscape so as to bring out the healing effect. Truthfully, the main purpose is to create a nice environment to upgrade the quality of life and overall well-being of people. / published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Landscape Architecture

Though Hong Kong has considerable green spaces, the enclosed, nice urban landscape is usually too symbolic for deep rest while the joyful natural park lacks setting for people to have long stay and deep enjoyment. I would like to take the opportunity of the thesis to research and discuss of a place where the landscape could be blurred with human intervention providing space for people to sustainable stay, enjoy nature and relax from the high density, high speed, and high-pressured urban life. Meanwhile, the local setting will be blurred in to the landscape as a feature that enhance the interaction between human and nature as well. It will be a space for people frequently and easier to be back to nature, a place for people to calm, clear, and pure their minds and heart, and a location to build a sustainable and harmonious relationship between people and nature. A meditation field is defined as such a place in my design. Blurring landscape is a new approach in this design where the blurring landscape layer turns the original site constrains into opportunity and sustainable human stay, and on the other hand, it enhances the interactive landscape feature for deep relax and completion through five senses. / published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Landscape Architecture

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Landscape Architecture

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Landscape Architecture

Although requirements in relation to indoor environment quality (IEQ) have been made in green building rating systems such as LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) and China GBL (Green Building Label) to promote occupant comfort, health and productivity, in practice, very little is known about user perception and satisfaction with IEQ in green buildings. Recruitment and post-occupancy evaluation of 10 office buildings (8 green buildings and 2 non-green buildings) and their 696 occupants for this study generated a dataset representing many potential avenues of inquiry. From the occupant’s point of view, the green offices in buildings with whole-building certification were significantly more satisfactory than the non-green offices, whereas the green offices certified only on the basis of their interiors were comparable to the non-green offices. Mixed-mode ventilation performed much better than other ventilation types (central air-conditioning and split air-conditioning). However, the mixed-mode green buildings were invariably perceived to be too cold in winter. A correlation model showed that green building users tended to appreciate a well ventilated, daylit, and quiet indoor environment for their health and productivity. The findings in the study made critical suggestions with regard to pursuing green building certification and addressing human factors in sustainable building design and research. The strengths and weaknesses of this study were discussed to inform future studies. / published_or_final_version / Architecture / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy