Designing to Engage Users in Sustainable Buildings

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dc.contributor.advisorDraper, Powelen_US
dc.contributor.authorGrzywa, Ashleyen_US
dc.contributor.departmentArchitectureen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-17T05:40:29Z
dc.date.available2015-07-17T05:40:29Z
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis is an investigation of how buildings can be designed to encourage pro-environmental behavior by engaging users in a sustainable built environment. By engaging users in sustainability building design can reestablish a cultural understanding of humanity’s interdependence with the natural environment. The basis for investigation is a brief analysis of how cultural perceptions of the natural environment have changed over time and an understanding of what motivates pro-environmental behavior. Understanding of the types of work done and spaces used by building occupants throughout a work day informs opportunities for user engagement in the production, consumption, recycling and monitoring of energy, water and waste. Insights revealed through this research culminate in a design proposal for an office building that integrates user engagement with sustainable building performance and puts us on a path toward cultural transition to sustainable behavior and symbiosis with the natural environment.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2S630
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/16833
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledArchitectureen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledSustainabilityen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEnvironmental studiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledbehavioren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledbuildingsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledparticipationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledsustainabilityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledunderstandingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledusersen_US
dc.titleDesigning to Engage Users in Sustainable Buildingsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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