الفهرس 
The Existing Proven Knowledge & Sciences Nature, Built Environment, Human Well-being, Mind-Body
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Abstract
The design paradigm in architecture and the built environment evolves with time. A distinct design paradigm dominated each era. Built environment design paradigms began with an environmental behavior design approach in the modern era. Furthermore, this concept has shifted, and designers have increasingly focused on environmental technology design approach. Subsequently, Green Architecture and sustainability became the primary design paradigm, emphasizing limiting the impact of humans and built environments on Nature and natural resources and creating green energy. A few decades ago, scientific studies show that humans spend more than 90% of their times inside the build environments. Also, a numerous number of chronical diseases and mental disorders related to stress have been emerged. Thus, architects, urban planners, and scientists realized and scientifically approved that built environment significantly impacts human’s mental and physical conditions. Existing proven sciences were created to direct the design paradigm to focus on humans’ health and well-being. The new design paradigm has emerged named human well-being oriented built environments design paradigm. In this thesis researchers’ aim is to create Human Well-being Design Principles and Considerations (WBDP), and explore to what extent architects and designers in Egypt consider them into the built environments design decisions and process. This qualitative research built on three phases. Phase one is the state-of-the-art scientifically existing proven theories and sciences, which focus on creating built environments that positively impact human mental and physical health. Phase two, is the deductive analysis part; researchers selected six existing proven sciences and theories to revisit them in order to create the Human Well-being Design Principles and Considerations (WBDP). These are The Attention Restoration Theory (ART), Stress Restoration Theory (SRT), Biophilia Theory, Biophilic Design, Neuroscience for Architecture (Neuro-Architecture), and the Well-Building Standards Rating System. Phase three researchers conducted open-ended, structured, in-person interviews for architects, urban designers, interior designers, and design professors based on WBDP. In addition, researchers selected some of their existing designed projects to review them. Researchers apply the inductive analysis technique to correlate and compare interviewees’ responses to the WBDP to explore their awareness of this proven knowledge and to what extent they consider human well-being design principles. Results and analysis show that architects and designers in Egypt are unaware of almost all of the existing, proven sciences or their scientific terminologies and content, especially the advanced or new human well-being design principles. However, they consider some design principles that were emphasized in the reviewed selected, designed projects considered part of the WBDP. However, they rely on their design inner thoughts, experiences, and emotions, not on the existing proven knowledge. Some designs with high levels of natural materials and vegetation were mainly created for the marketing and business approaches, not the human health approach. Moreover, design firms in Egypt do not apply the integrated design process, which includes other scientists, into the design process. Finally, researchers suggested that architects and designers in Egypt must be aware of the existing proven knowledge at better or higher levels to enhance the built environment as a final product in Egypt: they need to know that the design process is not about the designers, decision-makers, owners, and the end users only, but other humans’ scientists have to be involved nowadays to create livable and restorative environments.