Healing architecture: Exploration of mental well-being in an urban context
(2021) AAHM10 20211Department of Architecture and Built Environment
- Abstract
- This thesis seeks to explore an architectural typology that can enhance mental healing qualities in the urban structure. Our modern fast-paced lifestyle has a big impact on our mental well-being and our stress levels are constantly high, while our feelings are continuously exposed to different external factors. This minimizes our ability to understand and process them and to finally get through a stressful time. This recurrent phenomenon can lead to the formation of mental illness. Knowing this, we can observe the psychological mechanisms of a person with this experience, and get to the root of the idea behind the healing architecture typology. Through this study of already existing typologies with a healing purpose, the project will... (More)
- This thesis seeks to explore an architectural typology that can enhance mental healing qualities in the urban structure. Our modern fast-paced lifestyle has a big impact on our mental well-being and our stress levels are constantly high, while our feelings are continuously exposed to different external factors. This minimizes our ability to understand and process them and to finally get through a stressful time. This recurrent phenomenon can lead to the formation of mental illness. Knowing this, we can observe the psychological mechanisms of a person with this experience, and get to the root of the idea behind the healing architecture typology. Through this study of already existing typologies with a healing purpose, the project will search for architectural solutions in a city environment. The spatial intervention will be introduced on the edge of a green and urban context, and will be available for anyone who would like to participate in it. The proposal is designed as such, so it could be a regularly visited location, where you can go to get a mental pressure release. The outcome of my research is the design of three structures, placed on the edge of an easily accessible park and residential area of Copenhagen. Each structure will be an exploration of different healing approaches for mental well-being, while the architecture will work as a framework for peaceful and purposeful activities. The first typology will focus on the idea of healing through tranquillity, stillness, sensory stimulation, and different levels of privacy. The second typology aims to work with ideas around the soothing walk, its velocity, and the iteration of the spatial experience. The last typology will explore the therapeutic features of sunbathing. This thesis is not supposed to find a perfect solution to mental pressure, but rather, aim to explore the various outcomes. By understanding the importance of mental well-being in modern society, this thesis will propose methods of mind relaxation for the majority of people. (Less)
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- author
- Krokowska, Justyna LU
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- organization
- course
- AAHM10 20211
- year
- 2021
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- language
- English
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- 9059270
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abstract = {{This thesis seeks to explore an architectural typology that can enhance mental healing qualities in the urban structure. Our modern fast-paced lifestyle has a big impact on our mental well-being and our stress levels are constantly high, while our feelings are continuously exposed to different external factors. This minimizes our ability to understand and process them and to finally get through a stressful time. This recurrent phenomenon can lead to the formation of mental illness. Knowing this, we can observe the psychological mechanisms of a person with this experience, and get to the root of the idea behind the healing architecture typology. Through this study of already existing typologies with a healing purpose, the project will search for architectural solutions in a city environment. The spatial intervention will be introduced on the edge of a green and urban context, and will be available for anyone who would like to participate in it. The proposal is designed as such, so it could be a regularly visited location, where you can go to get a mental pressure release. The outcome of my research is the design of three structures, placed on the edge of an easily accessible park and residential area of Copenhagen. Each structure will be an exploration of different healing approaches for mental well-being, while the architecture will work as a framework for peaceful and purposeful activities. The first typology will focus on the idea of healing through tranquillity, stillness, sensory stimulation, and different levels of privacy. The second typology aims to work with ideas around the soothing walk, its velocity, and the iteration of the spatial experience. The last typology will explore the therapeutic features of sunbathing. This thesis is not supposed to find a perfect solution to mental pressure, but rather, aim to explore the various outcomes. By understanding the importance of mental well-being in modern society, this thesis will propose methods of mind relaxation for the majority of people.}},
author = {{Krokowska, Justyna}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Healing architecture: Exploration of mental well-being in an urban context}},
year = {{2021}},
}