The Impact of Educational-Therapeutic Facilities with Interior Space Patterns Designed Using Environmental Psychology Approach on Vitality of Clients (Case Study: Taban Diabetes Center)

With industrialization of cities and incorporation of new technologies into modern life, humans have been driven towards sedentary lifestyles, which has, in turn, led to emergence and intensification of dangerous health problems such as obesity, hypertension, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease and … which is followed by increasing reference to therapeutic and educational centers. Architects have introduced environmental psychology as an effective tool to alleviate the anxiety caused by attending educational and therapeutic centers and have investigated the effects of its components on training and recovery of clients. The population of the present study included some educational-therapeutic centers and the required data were collected from relevant library documents and texts. Speaking of methodology, the present research falls into the category of correlational and inductive reasoning studies. The results suggest that incorporation of environmental factors such as nature and green space, light and illumination and scenery into educational-therapeutic environments for the purpose of improving education, empowerment and self-care principles can have positive effects on temperament of clients and consequently create a sense of vitality and belonging ( as the basic premise of the present article) in addition to reducing the disease progression rate and its complications which could in turn contribute to the disease control, this approach can create a sense of peace of mind in clients and help them return to society. Therefore, the results indicate that some architectural design patterns used in educational-therapeutic centers can not only meet some needs of clients, but can provide the ground for their social interactions and create a sense of vitality in them.