The Bridge - A Bridge Back into Community
Typ
Examensarbete för masterexamen
Program
Architecture and planning beyond sustainability, MSc
Publicerad
2021
Författare
Diarbakarli, Jalal
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Sammanfattning
Mental illnesses are steadily increasing among people worldwide,
especially in countries with high GDP rates. Its effects are
reflected on individuals, families, and whole societies. In Sweden,
mental illnesses are in third place among diseases leading to death.
However, an addressed gab can be seen in its healthcare system. In
their long journey to complete recovery, patients with mental illnesses
usually visit more than one healthcare service provider; primary
care centres, department of social services, residential and daycare
centres, clubhouses, or psychiatric hospitals, to receive the holistic
care they need. Despite the vital role that psychiatric rehabilitation
plays in the patient’s treatment and recovery journey, it has unfortunately
not been perceived as a phase that requires dedicated facilities
that offer a holistic approach to psychiatric rehabilitation in
Sweden.
The purpose of this research is to emphasize the strong impact
of architecture and landscape elements on promoting psychological
health and wellbeing when sustainable- and health-promotive
approaches, including Salutogenesis and biophilia, are employed in
the design.
The research designs a health-promoting centre that offers
a holistic psychiatric rehabilitation approach to bridge patients, in
their aftercare phase of treatment, back to their communities and
have a healthy and functional life. The impact of the centre’s varied
activities and services are extending to include and engage with a
broad group of society. A research-for-design approach has been
applied in the study. Literature reviews, reference projects, interviews,
and implications of evidence-based design findings, and health-
promotive approaches, will be employed in the design process.
The outcome leads to the fact that architecture, together with
nature and other health-promotive approaches if applied wisely,
could work as a catalyst in promoting societal health and wellbeing.
Furthermore, it could play a key role in fighting the stigma associated
with mental-health-related facilities.
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Healthcare, psychiatric rehabilitation, health-promotion, , salutogenesis, biophilia, evidence based design, design for research