Abstract
This study was stipulated by today’s limited living conditions of middle income households in Bangladesh who have economic constraints that contribute to hindering improvement of their existing domestic settings that may affect occupants’ mental health and wellbeing. The design of domestic living environments tend to influence occupants’ emotions, feelings and moods. Thus, domestic environmental experiences need to be examined and incorporated into architectural design decisions. To understand the notion of such experiences, this study reviewed literatures concerning the related domains extensively. This study found the significant impact of domestic environments on human perceptions. Each design of domestic settings affects occupants’ emotional responses positively or negatively. Through this study, the term domestic environmental experience was defined as users’ experiences of cognitive perceptions and physical responses to their domestic built environment. In addition, it led to proposing the composition of domestic environmental experiences that need to be correlated with architectural design solutions. Nonetheless, this study did not examine the correlation where the emerging notion of Environmental Experience Design (EXD) may serve as the mediator. Accordingly, this new horizon of EXD research needs to be explored further with the aim to improve domestic built environments in Bangladesh which were the original driver of this research.
Highlights
Bangladesh is a fast-urbanizing developing country [1]
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a large portion of young people in Bangladesh are suffering from various types of mental health and wellbeing problems such as mental disorder, depression and anxiety
These problems are crucial in middle income families who live in urban areas in Bangladesh where the high level of air pollution, occupant density and economic constraints including housing affordability [1,6]
Summary
Bangladesh is a fast-urbanizing developing country [1]. It is the 7th position in the global population which is estimated at nearly 164 million residents. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a large portion of young people in Bangladesh are suffering from various types of mental health and wellbeing problems such as mental disorder, depression and anxiety These problems are crucial in middle income families who live in urban areas in Bangladesh where the high level of air pollution, occupant density and economic constraints including housing affordability [1,6]. To explore this research question, extensive literature reviews concerning environmental design and psychology, human perception and phenomenology, mental health and wellbeing and product user experience in the global context were conducted in this paper This initial study is aimed solely at clarifying the notion (or conceptual framework), the research outcomes are expected for the future application to designing or upgrading domestic living environments of middle income groups for enhancement of their mental health and wellbeing in Bangladesh
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