Place for Healing

Project idea

“Healing’’ is the concept that enables people to recover their body, mind, or soul through a process that helps them to continue their journey in regular manners. Healing through architecture refers to architecture that allows people to heal physically and mentally by using architectural elements like form, space, light, materials, and enclosure.
People in modern days go through a lot of physical and mental distress to survive in the race of advancement. As the human body and mind are interdependent, if one gets sick, the other can go along. But the races people are getting themselves into are having a significant impact on the human body and mind negatively. The human body and mind need a healing space where they can heal and revive themselves at the end of the day and re-energize for the upcoming challenges following the next day. That’s why we aim to create a series of spaces that will help them to heal the energy of their body and mind, which they lose that day in the process of survival.

Project description

Our design is applicable in every populated urban context, situated on the way back home for a person who needs physical and mental healing. As we focus on the condition of daily recovery, we imagined our design as a “Path that Heals’’ with series of psychological and physical experiences. This path is merged into the regular pathway and offers people a transition space to heal themselves daily.

Technical information

We designed the experience of the pathway in 5 stages. In the first stage, we offer people a “Space of Preparation ’’ to rest after a busy day and prepare themselves individually for the healing journey. The second space is “Space for Contemplation,” where people can soothe their minds and eliminate the daily burden.
The third space id for the “Space of Social Healing” is an interconnected space that will allow people to cheer themselves up by social interaction, sharing their thoughts, and help to b0nd with other people. Here, people can help and guide each other by sharing their ideas and experience and doing some mutual activities as a healing process.
The fourth space is one of the vital stages, where the body and mind of the person may find an escape from the daily concrete jungle and get too close to Nature. Natural elements in architecture help both body and mind to heal them at their best. In Nature, all the senses of humans can get relief, and the space in our journey helps people experience that relief.
The final stage is to the pride in them to the motive for a new day, reminding them about the dignity and achievements they hold in the past in the “Space of Monumentality.”
After going through these five stages, a person may be broken with the daily workload and distress and finally be healed to face a new day and a new challenge.