Scoping review of health in office design approaches
Review article, 2020
This paper aims to explore the literature on office design approaches (ODAs) in relation to employee health. The overall goal is to facilitate the practical use and theoretical development of design approaches to healthy offices.
Design/methodology/approach:
A scoping review of 7,432 papers collected from 4 electronic databases and 5 scientific journals resulted in the selection of 18 papers for content analysis.
Findings:
Various ODAs relating to building design features and health were identified. The findings highlight challenges for this emergent field, including a paucity of literature on ODAs, a lack of definitions of health and healthy offices, ambiguous design strategies and a lack of a holistic ODA.
Originality/value:
ODAs are potentially valuable resources but an under-considered topic for healthy office development. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first scoping review to map and compare different design approaches in the context of office design and its main contribution is in encouraging researchers and practitioners to bring a salutogenic and holistic perspective to their design approaches.
office
productivity
salutogenic
workplace design
design approach
health
Author
Melina Forooraghi
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Building Technology
Elke Miedema
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Architectural theory and methods
Nina Ryd
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Building Design
Holger Wallbaum
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Building Technology
Journal of Corporate Real Estate
1463-001X (ISSN) 1479-1048 (eISSN)
Vol. 22 2 155-180Subject Categories
Economics
Nursing
Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
DOI
10.1108/JCRE-08-2019-0036