Optimizing the Performance of Health Facilities in Egypt: Using a Hybrid Approach Combining Biophilic Design and BIM

Abstract

—Most of the health facilities in Egypt neglect the importance of human connection with the surrounding nature, which results in multiple physical, psychological, and emotional problems such as stress, lack of concentration, fatigue, and a decrease in performance. To overcome this problem, this paper suggests a hybrid approach combining Biophilic design and BIM. This approach combines both Biophilic design and BIM through a restorative environmental design concept to combine both environmental and human aspects. This study's results develop a checklist that assesses Biophilic design patterns that exist in buildings by analyzing the KTPH case example. In addition to exploring a framework for Building Information Modeling (BIM) to be used with sustainability assessment methods in buildings. The paper concludes with the importance of the human-nature relation and how to apply this approach in Egypt, in addition to theoretically combining Biophilic design and BIM.