The role of interior architecture in the spaces of rehabilitation, especial for children with a focus on evidences-based design approach

Abstract

Since children's physical and psychological characteristics are different, it is obvious that treatment spaces of children demand their specific interior design. In this article has been tried to affect in the process of improving the sick children and increase the efficiency of treatment spaces with the use of evidence-based approach, by relying on reducing stress and anxiety caused by the presence in healthcare environments and enhance the peace and a sense of belonging. The research method of the present article is kind of descriptive-analytic and data gathering method is based on documentary study. The result of research is presenting strategies in designing rehabilitation-treatment spaces for children that have healing environmental quality. Features of light, color, the visual affecting forms, painting and proportionate environmental graphic or children in waiting rooms, detection spaces and rest and different treatment areas andalso establishing the game and entertainment spaces to instill a sense of peace, security and stimulate the visual impressions and space relation and perspective to the various interior spaces and or nature and landscapes of external area of therapeutic spaces can have a significant impact by creating a positive distraction to accelerate treatment process and increasing healing quality of therapeutic spaces of children.

Keywords: therapeutic spaces especially for children, positive distraction, rehabilitation, color therapy, art therapy, play therapy, evidence-based design