Enhancing the Hospital Healing Environment through Art and Day-lighting for User’s Therapeutic Process

The ideology behind healing is a psychological and spiritual concept of health. Over the past few decades, the integration of a healing environment into medicine has taken a more holistic approach, and has transformed the hospital atmosphere into an exhilarating place, which affects both staff and patients’ wellbeing. Investigators have revealed that visual stimulation of nature, natural lighting, artwork, relaxing colours, and therapeutic sound can greatly accelerate the therapeutic process and create a less stressful hospital premises. This paper focuses on the hospital interior spaces and its positive influence to facilitate patients’ wellness and staff task satisfaction through art and daylighting. The research techniques adopted include, related frameworks, on-site observations, and 50 administered controlled questionnaires. Apparently, artwork and natural daylight have the potentials to facilitate better healing condition on patients’ wellbeing and hospital care providers’ task satisfaction. Although, further research will still be required to quantify and validate this hypothesis.