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Hospitals designers and administrators main aim is to create a healing space. It could be defined as a space that reduces stress, helps health and healing, and improves patient and staff safety.

The notion of a healing space goes back to ancient Greece: people who were ill looked towareds temples in the hope of having dreams where the God would reveal cures. Later, in 1860, Florence Nightingale fixed ventilation and fresh air as “the very first canon of nursing,” and underline the importance of quietness, proper lighting, warmth, and clean water. Then, a pioneering study conducted by Roger Ulrich in 1984 found that surgery patients with a view of nature suffered fewer complications, used less pain medication, and were discharged sooner than those with a brick-wall view. in addition, studies exist about the psychological effects of lighting, carpeting, and noise on critical-care patients.

currentlyCurrently there are a growing number ofis evidence that links the physical environment with the improvement of patients and staff safety, wellness and satisfaction {{fact}}.

EBD continues several research and building practices that have been developed in the 1960s.