Restoration Benefits Research On Bedrooms Of Holiday Cabins

With the development of global urbanization,the population and building density of modern cities are increasing rapidly.Urban dwellers,who are endured with immense pressure in high-paced urban lives,need some channels to restore to health.Researches from environmental psychology have indicated that objective environment can affect people in positive or negtive ways.Environment which has restorative benefits would help people recovering from stress and fatigue more quickly.Holiday cabins,as leisure products,are popular among the public recently.With the material attributes(natural and warm)of timber,they fullfill people’s requirement of relaxing and reliefing.However,little is knowed about the restorative benefits of holiday cabins internal spaces.The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between the design of living spaces of holiday cabins and their spatial restoration.The research explores the effects of spatial openness and wood colors on psychological evaluation and physiological indicators.Firstly,focus group and case study were used to establish that spatial openness and wood colors are the main factors affecting restorative benefits of living spaces of holiday cabins.Then,four types of living spaces and three wood colors were summerized.After that,12 experimental test pictures were designed.Finally,the questionnaire survey on restorative benefits evaluation of living spaces of holiday cabins was carried out through the Internet and laboratory experiments.The statistical results showed that the restoration of the living space of holiday cabins is significantly correlated with spatial openness.When the degree of openness is moderate,the living space has the highest restorative benefits.When the degree of openness gets higher,restorative benefits decreases.And the living space with lower openness has the lowest restorative benefits.The statistical result showed that wood color has an impact on restorative bebefits of living spaces.When the spatial openness is small or moderate,living spaces decorated with white-yellow wood have the highest restorative benefits and the difference is significant.When the spatial opening is higher,living spaces decorated with brown wood have the highest restorative benefits.Based on this,we explored the effects of spatial openness and wood colors on recovery time from a physiological perspective.Firstly,the physiological experiment was designed according to stress recovery theory.Then,8 subjects were recruited and their heart rate data in the experiment were collected.The statistical data of the experiment showed that subjects’ recovery time is significantly correlated with the openness of living space.Viewing living room with moderate spacial openness can help people recovering from stress more quickly.The recovery time increases when viewing a completely enclosed or three-sided open living spaces.Wood colors have little effect on the recovery time of the subjects and will vary with the openness of spaces,but the significance of this difference is larger than 0.05.This study introduces “restoration theory” into interior spaces design,which provides a new perspective for the design of living spaces of holiday cabins.According to the experimental results,restoration environment design strategies of holiday cabins’ living spaces are proposed.It can provide new ideas for design practices of future holiday cabins and improve environmental quality of holiday cabins’ living space.