Animal-Supportive Architecture: Difference between revisions

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Animal-supportive architecture prioritizes the needs, behaviors, and well-being of animals, and is commonly used in places like zoos, veterinary hospitals, and animal shelters. Where it is not commonly found is in homes, which are virtually all anthropocentric. For example, in the United States, over 70% of households have a pet, but close to 0% of those homes are built to support the living needs of animals, which seems like a problem worth solving.

As one of its goals, the Haven Homes project seeks to create a collection of architectural concepts that make living with animals better, improving the health and happiness of pets and the people who care for them. These concepts adhere to a strict set of design principles, which we are sharing in the hopes that it sparks ideas for new concepts or improvements to existing ones, or leads to ways the principles themselves could be improved. Furthermore, these principles are based on a model of attitudes toward animals that we are sharing for similar collaborative review.

Applying these principles eliminated hundreds of concepts we considered; below are some of the few that have been put into production at Haven House and Cloud Nine Studios as part of this project:

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-The Haven Homes project seeks to create a collection of architectural concepts that make living with animals better, improving the health and happiness of pets and the people who care for them.
+Animal-supportive architecture prioritizes the needs, behaviors, and well-being of animals, and is commonly used in places like zoos, veterinary hospitals, and animal shelters.
+Where it is not commonly found is in homes, which are virtually all anthropocentric.
+For example, in the United States, over 70% of households have a pet, but close to 0% of those homes are built to support the living needs of animals, which seems like a problem worth solving.
-While developing these concepts, we adhere to a strict set of [[Design Principles|design principles]], which we are sharing in the hopes that it sparks an idea for a new concept or an improvement to an existing one, or even a way the principles themselves could be improved.
+As one of its goals, the Haven Homes [[About the Project|project]] seeks to create a collection of architectural concepts that make living with animals better, improving the health and happiness of pets and the people who care for them.
+These concepts adhere to a strict set of [[Design Principles for Animal-Supportive Architecture|design principles]], which we are sharing in the hopes that it sparks ideas for new concepts or improvements to existing ones, or leads to ways the principles themselves could be improved.
+Furthermore, these principles are based on a model of [[Attitudes Toward Animals|attitudes toward animals]] that we are sharing for similar collaborative review.
-Applying these principles has weeded out about 99% of the concepts we have considered so far. Here you can learn about the few that have made the cut so far and been put into production at Haven Homes properties.
+Applying these principles eliminated hundreds of concepts we considered; below are some of the few that have been put into production at [[Haven House]] and [[Cloud Nine Studios]] as part of this project:
 ===Concepts in Production===
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 <gallery>
 File:Gray.png|Slide: [[Litter Closet]]|link=Litter Closet
+File:Gray.png|Slide: [[Cat Loft]]|link=Cat Loft
+File:Gray.png|Slide: [[Bowl Basin]]|link=Bowl Basin
 File:Gray.png|Slide: [[Sanctuary Gate]]|link=Sanctuary Gate
-File:Gray.png|Slide: [[Bowl Basin]]|link=Bowl Basin
-File:Gray.png|Slide: [[Cat Loft]]|link=Cat Loft
 File:Gray.png|Slide: [[Scratch Station]]|link=Scratch Station
-File:Gray.png|Slide: [[Lunar Beacon]]|link=Lunar Beacon
+File:Gray.png|Slide: [[Sensory Landmark]]|link=Sensory Landmark
-File:Gray.png|Slide: [[Catwalk Lightrail]]|link=Catwalk Lightrail
+File:Gray.png|Slide: [[Catwalk Cove Light]]|link=Catwalk Cove Light
-File:Gray.png|Slide: [[Railscoting]]|link=Railscoting
-File:Gray.png|Slide: [[Catio_Lounge]]|link=Catio Lounge
 File:Gray.png|Slide: [[Lowell Closet]]|link=Lowell Closet
 </gallery>