Bamboo Bridges to combat Sick Building Syndrome

Depression in the occupants of a building is one of the leading psychological symptoms of Sick Building Syndrome. Building owners and city planners can use aesthetic and innovative building and city planning designs to counter the depression that occurs in the occupants. We propose to implement the use of bamboo bridges within and around the city to create a more aesthetic environment for which the occupants of the buildings within the city work.

The ornate bamboo bridges can span waterways, create building to building walkways or improve existing parks and recreation areas. The use of these aesthetically pleasing structures will increase the overall city view from within and around the buildings. Since depression is affected by the environment which the depressed person lives, increasing the aesthetic environment around the person will help combat depression, and ultimately lead to a decrease in psychological Sick Building Syndrome cases. We propose to create a wiki page in order to increase the awareness of depression related to Sick Building Syndrome and how it affects high school and college students.

High school and college students have the highest rate of depression of any age group. Targeting this age group would then allow us to combat depression where its affects the largest population per age group. Also, the wiki page will provide descriptions and model representations of bamboo bridges and city planning methods to implement these bridges. Our goal is through increased awareness of Sick Building Syndrome and through the use of aesthetic bamboo bridges, we can lower the incidence of depression, and hopefully reduce the incidence of Sick Building Syndrome in the process.

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