Green Concert Hall Design Perception and Residents’ Well-Being: The Roles of Perceived Nature Connectedness and Perceived Restorativeness—Evidence from Chengdu City Concert Hall

As green building concepts continue to expand into public cultural spaces, green concert halls not only serve functions of cultural communication and artistic services, but also play an important role in shaping urban residents’ psychological experiences and well-being. However, existing studies on green buildings have mainly focused on energy performance and technical indicators, while limited attention has been paid to how green cultural buildings are associated with residents’ well-being through environmental perception. In the Chinese context, research specifically examining green concert halls remains scarce. Based on environmental psychology and restorative environment theory, this study takes the Chengdu City Concert Hall, which has received China’s Three-Star Green Building certification, as the research object. A conceptual model of “green concert hall design perception–perceived nature connectedness–perceived restorativeness–residents’ well-being” was constructed to explore the underlying mechanisms linking green concert hall design perception and residents’ well-being. Green concert hall design perception was conceptualized as a second-order construct consisting of four dimensions: green design legibility, eco-environmental comfort, green aesthetic integration, and green cultural symbolism. Perceived nature connectedness and perceived restorativeness were introduced as mediating variables. A survey was conducted among 879 Chengdu residents with concert-hall attendance experience, and structural equation modeling (SEM) was employed for empirical analysis. The results indicate that (1) green concert hall design perception is significantly and positively associated with residents’ well-being; and (2) perceived nature connectedness and perceived restorativeness both play significant mediating roles in the relationship between green concert hall design perception and residents’ well-being, while also forming a significant sequential mediating effect. The findings suggest that green concert halls are associated with more positive environmental experiences through ecological and aesthetic characteristics, and that residents’ well-being may be further linked to strengthened nature connectedness and restorative perceptions. This study extends research on green public cultural buildings from the perspective of residents’ psychological perception, and provides theoretical support and practical implications for human-centered green concert hall design and the development of urban green cultural spaces.