Year 3. Major: Dressing Healing Spaces With Domesticity

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Treating Healing Spaces with Domesticity

Healing Center for Anxiety Sufferers

The project explores the level architectural influence has on the healing process on people struggling with generalised anxiety disorder. The therapy centre is designed of private and open spaces intertwining with each other. Encouraging the patients to heal in spaces that allows them to slowly be introduces to public areas again and back to normal life. Showing them that they are not alone in their struggle and that i’s ok to talk.

Brief

Previously Lincoln's old Stoke Warehouse in the town centre operated as a pharmaceutical practice. Treating the general public in the late 19th century of their physical illnesses. In the present day it's serving the use of a private warehouse. The new brief is turning Stoke Warehouse's use back to treating people, but this time for their mental health.

The new approach focuses on how architecture may assist in the healing process, where the spatial atmosphere and design follows the treatment stages the visitors goes through. With this level of influence the scheme aims to create a relationship of private and open therapy spaces to demonstrate that they're not alone in the sickness and that there is help. Alongside this, an alternative focus of work in the relationship between the client and the counsellor bring a different attention in getting well. These approaches, along with dressing these spaces with a familiar and comfortable atmosphere, will help encourage a more natural and safer conversations for a more comfortable, confident and faster treatment.