Healthy Design in School Architecture

This transdiscplinary initiative integrates public health and architecture to provide new best practice school design guidelines to promote healthy behaviors and lifestyles. The work has informed the health and design pillar of the American Institute of Architects and a prototype school has been built in Virginia. More details of the products and publications from this work can be seen here.

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Principal Investigator: Terry Huang

Select Publications:

• Healthy eating design guidelines for school architecture

• Public health and the green building industry: partnership opportunities for childhood obesity prevention

• Influence of school architecture and design on healthy eating: a review of the evidence

• Process and Outcomes From a Youth-Led Campaign to Address Healthy Eating in an Urban High School

• Physical Activity Design Guidelines for School Architecture

• The Role of School Design in Shaping Healthy Eating-Related Attitudes, Practices, and Behaviors Among School Staff

• Children's Discourse of Liked, Healthy, and Unhealthy Foods

• Methodology to integrate complex systems thinking and multi-criteria decision analysis in health-oriented planning and application to a healthcare example

• Comparison of the Effects of Stable and Dynamic Furniture on Physical Activity and Learning in Children

• Visual research on student perceptions of and relationship to the school health environment

• Impacts of active school design on school-time sedentary behavior and physical activity: A pilot natural experiment

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