Annotation #8.

Video

Municipal Art Society.“Health in the Built Environment.” Online Video Clip. Youtube. Youtube, 30 October 2014. Web. 23 March 2016.

This video is about DELOS which is an organization that builds for health and well-being. It starts off by explaining that we spend ninety percent of our time inside, but we do not know the affects it has on our health. The entire video is focused in on the interior built environment.

The director of DELOS, Natasha Franck, came up with a well building standard. The concepts of the well building standard consists of: air, water, nourishment, light, fitness, comfort, and mind. She gives examples of how being inside makes boundaries between us and nature. For instance, not being in the natural lighting takes away the natural ques the natural light does for us. Also, she points out things like poor air quality in an interior built environment. The interior built environment has more of an impact than realized. With the well building standard, aspects of the built environment such as air quality would improve drastically.

This video seemed relevant because of the topic being how the interior environment affects one’s health and behavior. It falls in line with my latest annotations on the health aspect of built environments. The only improvement that could have been made would be more examples given when talking about what the well building standard would consist of.

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