The landscape as a palliative resource for the conditions derived from home confinement by COVID-19.

Abstract

During the weeks of confinement in Spain due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the population that was locked up stopped feeling, living and shaping their daily landscape. This abnormal situation generated lack of well-being and discomfort in frequent cases and even states of stress, mental fatigue, etc. The hypothesis put forward is that the two-level connection with the landscape that was left outside the walls of the houses helped to alleviate the deficits in physical and mental well-being; either through contact with the basic biophysical elements: direct light, air, vegetation, etc., (through different kinds of openings and windows on the façade), or through the observation of the extrinsic landscape through those same openings.