Designing a healthy home

Designing a healthy home: Research for guidelines to improve the physical health and mental well-being in dwellings using the passive house concept as basis

Knoppert, Jordy (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Miedema, E. (mentor)
Lafeber, J.W. (mentor)
Oorschot, L.M. (mentor)
Spaans, M. (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Dwelling

2023-06-20

This master thesis is about health in the build environment focused on the occupant’s health in their own home. Dou to the increasing research about physical health and mental well-being it is getting clearer what is needed to create a healthy home. However, our homes are not becoming healthier. This is mainly because people do not know or understand how to regulate their indoor climate system to create a healthy indoor living environment. Based on the passive house concept and the growing understanding of health this thesis resulted in healthy design guidelines.

With the growing pressure on the Dutch health care sector, growing climate problems and pressure on the Dutch housing market more should be done to resolve this. Therefore, a project statement has been made of what is technically possible resulting in the use carbon fibre as building material for this project. On a location that because of shortage of space in the Netherlands has been reconsidered and now is approved for residential development. Giving a possibility to deal with the problems of today while incorporating the solution of the future into a new healthy home design.

Carbon fibre
dwellings
healthy
healthy design guidelines
healthy home
mental well-being
passive house concept
physical health

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c1283ac3-dbb9-4a6a-bc38-a1763309acb3

Student theses

master thesis

© 2023 Jordy Knoppert