BIOPHILIC DESIGN TO ENHANCE THE HEALING ENVIRONMENT IN MALAYSIAN PRIVATE HOSPITALS: EXPERTS’ PERSPECTIVES

• Published in: Malaysian Construction Research Journal
• Main Author: Zakaria N.Z.; Ahmad S.; Amir A.F.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Construction Research Institute of Malaysia 2024
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85202046406&partnerID=40&md5=03eba30e88a18217ee90a7e833cc24e2

Malaysia is making many efforts to integrate nature into hospital building design to enhance the healing environment. This aligns with the Malaysian Sustainable Development Goal (Goal 3), which is to focus on good health and well-being, ensure everyone lives a healthy life, and encourages well-being at all ages. Therefore, the biophilic design concept successfully implemented in international hospital buildings to incorporate nature could be used for Malaysian hospital buildings. This study aims to establish the biophi lic design elements checklist for Malaysian private hospitals through experts’ perspectives. Therefore, five experts who were involved in designing green hospitals in Malaysia had been selected for semi-structured interviews to obtain valid and reliable data. The experts were architects of the Green Building Index (GBI) green-rated hospitals in Malaysia. The data were analysed by using content analysis. From the analysis, twelve biophilic design elements had been agreed upon by the experts to be integrated into private hospitals in Malaysia. Establishing a biophilic design elements checklist for Malaysian private hospitals could encourage more green hospital development. © 2024, Construction Research Institute of Malaysia. All rights reserved.