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Design of Healthy Spaces: Wellness and Comfort

A course by Ana García López , Architect and Interior Designer

Architect and Interior Designer. Barcelona, Spain.
Joined November 2019

Learn how to improve the quality of life a new space provides for its inhabitants through simplicity, coherence, and environmental responsibility

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99% positive reviews (177)
8,373 students
Audio: Spanish
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Learn how to improve the quality of life a new space provides for its inhabitants through simplicity, coherence, and environmental responsibility

Interior design can contribute to our health and comfort on a daily basis, and healthy architecture can even improve our physical and emotional states. Discover all the secrets alongside architect Ana García, founder of NeuronaLab and creator of the Zamness coworking spaces.

In this course, Ana introduces you to the design of healthy spaces and talks about neuroarchitecture. Learn design strategies and how to apply basic principles to your project, from the initial ideas to the finished product. By considering environmental impact as well as the health and comfort of the inhabitants you can achieve interior design solutions with wellness at their very core.

If you'd also like to learn how to carry out a renovation project step by step you can do so with Ana's first course Interior Design from Start to Finish.

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What will you learn in this online course?

13 lessons & 37 downloads

Influences
5 minutes, 44 seconds
Architecture and health
10 minutes, 23 seconds
Materiality
7 minutes, 50 seconds
Furniture
16 minutes, 18 seconds
Lighting and energy saving
9 minutes, 46 seconds
  • 99% positive reviews (177)
  • 8,373 students
  • 13 lessons (1h 42m)
  • 37 additional resources (13 files)
  • Online and at your own pace
  • Available on the app
  • Audio: Spanish
  • Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch
  • Level: Beginner
  • Unlimited access forever

What is this course's project?

Develop an interior design project with straightforward strategies focused on the health of the inhabitants as well as reducing environmental impact. To develop your project you need some manual drawing materials or a design software of your choice.

Projects by course students

Who is this online course for?

Anyone interested in their surroundings who wants to learn to adapt their space to optimize wellbeing.

Requirements and materials

No previous architecture knowledge is necessary for this course, but some familiarity with scale drawings is recommended for depicting your project.

In terms of materials, you need colored pencils or felt-tips, a triangular scale ruler, tracing paper, parchment or graph paper, a notebook for sketching, or if you prefer, a tablet or computer.


Reviews

8,373 Students
177 Reviews
99% Positive ratings

Ana García López

A course by Ana García López

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Architect and Interior Designer

Ana García is the director of NeuronaLab, architecture studio and healthy space consultancy. After cofounding Nook Architects, where she has also managed projects for over ten years, as well as creating the Zamness coworking spaces, she is beginning a new professional chapter in which her projects will be based on neuroarchitecture and bioconstruction.

Ana is a Barcelona-born architect who specializes in designing spaces built for both living and working. She adapts each of her projects to the characteristics of the space in question, reassessing their role according to the needs of the inhabitants to achieve healthy spaces centered around well-being and comfort. Her work goes hand in hand with teaching and she currently directs a Master's in interior urban spaces at the LCI Barcelona.


Content

  • U1

    Introduction

    • Presentation
    • Influences
  • U2

    Project strategies

    • Architecture and health
    • Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto
    • What is Neuroarchitecture?
    • Dissolution of boundaries between home and office
  • U3

    How to approach a project: Practical cases

    • First ideas and project approach
    • Materiality
    • Furniture
    • Lighting and energy saving
    • Economic valuation
  • U4

    Projected spaces and inhabited spaces

    • Return
    • Reinhabit
  • FP

    Final project

    • Design of Healthy Spaces: Wellness and Comfort

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Domestika's courses are online classes that provide you with the tools and skills you need to complete a specific project. Every step of the project combines video lessons with complementary instructional material, so you can learn by doing. Domestika's courses also allow you to share your own projects with the teacher and with other students, creating a dynamic course community.

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Design of Healthy Spaces: Wellness and Comfort. Architecture, and Spaces course by Ana García López Best seller

Design of Healthy Spaces: Wellness and Comfort

A course by Ana García López
Architect and Interior Designer. Barcelona, Spain.
Joined November 2019
  • 99% positive reviews (177)
  • 8,373 students