Windowless rooms pose the same problem. Spacious-ness and partial enclosure appear to be the most satisfying. It's been only recently accepted that the environment could positively or negatively influence the body's ability to heal. Hospitals and clinics were white, hard-surfaced and sterile. Health care professionals, however, are beginning to understand the healing power of design and are demanding colors which comfort, architectural cues which aid wayfinding, plants and sunlight to relieve anxiety.
Few places exist in which the power of design can be more keenly felt than in the workplace.
It is, after all, where we spend the majority of our time. Yet some of our solutions have hardly been inspired. Office design has advanced to a level where measurable gains are being realized in worker productivity and satisfaction. Manufacturers are coming up with imaginative and flexible workstations that meet the needs of the way we work today. Spaces filled with light, imagination and appropriate attention paid to the needs of the people who work there.