Healing Through Architecture: - "We Shape Our Buildings Thereafter They Shape Us."

• “We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
”
Healing – Winston Churchill
Through • "Buildings have a direct effect on our emotions.

Architecture They can be depressing or uplifting, soothing or
surprising, welcoming or forgiving.” -Eberhard
Therapeutic/
Healing THE 6 PILLARS OF BIOCLIMATIC
DESIGN
HOLISTIC
SUSTAINABILITY
HARMONIZING
SPACES
HEALING
Architecture ARCHITECTURE
The concept of designing Architectural BUILDING RADIATION SACRED
spaces by considering natural factors HEALTH GEOMETRY
like sound, light, color, smell, and

pleasant views certainly connects to Psychology of Architecture and its effects on humans
human senses and proves to show more
ability in the physical and psychological
healing of patients.
Healing spaces not only change the
mental state of a person but make her
aware of all the elements of our
nature. Thus, architecturally defining
these spaces is not only important but
necessary.
HEALING CENTRE FOR THE MIND BODY AND SOUL
Sensory Healing Through Architecture
The need to Spaces have an enormous potential of having a positive impact on
design/provide the psyche and emotions of people and their relevance has more
an significance in the context of patients.
architecturally
defined healing
space for Mental
HealthCare as to The aim is to provide a place where people can relax and reconnect
help in with self, experience the impact of senses through built space and
recovering our facilities for mind-body therapies if needed.
illness by
sensorial
approaches. It aims to incorporate a combination of landscape and materials in
coordination with light and wind. This concept of sensory
incorporation is to open the space; to touch, hear and smell with a
variety of materials.
The design will include private counselling spaces, meditation

spaces, healing garden, therapeutic spa facility, hospitality spaces so
visitors can choose what experiences they need.
Areas to be explored: Psychological Environmenta Architectural Social Factors
Factors l Factors Factors
Factors such as-
• Concept of Healing; Mental Understandin Understandin Understanding Lack of
healthcare g the concept g and architectural awareness
of Healing implying requirements of about mental
• Architectural Psychology- The through Holistic a Mental health
influence of Architecture on our sensory Sustainability HealthCare/ in society
psyche approach in design Healing Center
• Fenestration; The power of openings
Factors Sensory Studying existing Social factors
• Color theory affecting and approaches Therapeutic/ affecting mental
enhancing Holistic health
• Material influence on overall sense healing architectural
of environment process spaces
• Sensorial approach in design Impact of built Incorporating Studying Understanding
considering temperature, lighting, environment green spaces fenestration, the approach of
air flow, water body, sound on the mood and water color theory, people towards
quality, green spaces of a person bodies optimum healing spaces
utilization of
• And more. materials
Santa Fe de Bogotá Foundation
Architects: Equipo de Mazzanti Architects
Location: Bogota, Colombia| Year: 2016
Area: 32000 m2|Type: Medical Center
• Façade - This façade allows the use of the

brick wall as a membrane that helps to
have a semi-private relation with the
exterior.
• On the back of the brick skin, there is a
glazed skin to prevent pollution,
contamination, noise and whether
isolation for a really temperature and
sound control.
• They want to rescue the intention of the
patio and natural lighting in each of the
spaces, an element of vital meaning in the
healing process.
• Well-being: management of the best
interior environmental quality:
contamination control, protection and
control, thermic control, visual and smell
comfort, perception comfort, light comfort.
Sensory Healing
Centre by Jee
Yeon Choi
• There are three major program
areas in the center of the
building: Library, Sensory
Garden, and Organic Café. By
having the Sensory Garden
between the Library and the
Organic Café, the place works as
a bridge to manifest the
transition of two different
atmospheres.
• This non-traditional healing
center gives visitors a sense of
peace by connecting them to
nature with a variety of sensory
experiences by Strategies to
incorporate natural materials
and lighting, green spaces and
human interactions.
Muktangan Rehabilitation Centre Saroj Gupta Cancer Centre and Research
Institute
Location: Pune, Maharashtra Location: Thakurpukur, West Bengal
Built Area: 1660 sqm Plot Area:13 acres
The design unifying transparency becomes expressive SGCCRI is a nonprofit organization which boasts of
of this freedom and increases the physical and visual a sprawling 13 acres campus with trees, gardens and
interaction, thereby reducing the isolated alienated water bodies that create an ambience of being cared for in
the lap of nature. The philosophy behind such
feeling. Even the main entrance is transparent. The
extensive natural landscaping is to blend nature, art
transparency, the cutouts, the terraced balconies and and architecture, with modern machinery, extensive
the seating, encourage the patients to open up. The medical know-how and care to soothe the agony of the
small-enclosed landscaped amphitheater breathes thousands of patients, who come every year to the
light and joy in the building. institute.
RELEVANT CASESTUDIES
AND RESEARCH PAPERS
Sensory Healing Centre by Jee Yeon Choi
https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/architecture/cultural/sensory-healing-center-by-jee-yeon-choi/
Thes is: RAW Holistic Healing Centre
https ://www.canr.msu.edu/news/thesis-project-raw-holistic-healing-center
Di s sertation: Healing Through Architecture by Shiva ni Tandon
https ://issuu.com/shivanitandon/docs/ilovepdf_merged
s outhwest centre for forensic mental health care
https ://www.parkin.ca/blog/designing-for-mental-health-facilities/
Yarram and District Health Services, Integrated Healthcare Centre / McBride Charles Ryan
https ://www.archdaily.com/965938/yarram-and-district-health-servi ces-integrated-healthcare-centre-mcbride-

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Muktangan Pune Ca se Study https://issuu.com/nikhilsaxena/docs/portfolio--nikhil_kumar_saxena

Psychology of Architecture and its effects on humans
Buildings have a direct effect on

our emotions. They
can be depressing or uplifting, soothi
ng or surprising, welcoming or
forgiving.” -Eberhard

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• “We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Through • "Buildings have a direct effect on our emotions.

like sound, light, color, smell, and

The design will include private counselling spaces, meditation

• Façade - This façade allows the use of the

Thes is: RAW Holistic Healing Centre

Di s sertation: Healing Through Architecture by Shiva ni Tandon

s outhwest centre for forensic mental health care

https ://www.archdaily.com/965938/yarram-and-district-health-servi ces-integrated-healthcare-centre-mcbride-

Muktangan Pune Ca se Study https://issuu.com/nikhilsaxena/docs/portfolio--nikhil_kumar_saxena

Buildings have a direct effect on

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