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Mental Health in High Rise Apartment

Rishabh Verma, Rakshit Rana

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Housing, as the population is growing there is a shift in building typologies as well as the govt. schemes primarily focused on settlement of growing population and also to handle the footfall in metropolitan cities due to interstate migration, but with this there is also a shift in human behavior. The research includes study of the mental health of the user, the study is being conducted to address the life issues generating due to the design and functions of habitat which is affecting the human health. study area comprises of high rise apartments which have designs and functions to cater the needs of today but lack in providing the ideal environment for a good society, the study is being done through a survey of google forms creating a questionnaire reflecting certain points as described above, The research concludes the change in human behavior due to social isolation.


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/jrrpd.v5i2.567

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