Architecture for Healing

Results announced

Winner: THE CELL | Architecture of Healing by Sandra Jin

Honorable Mention: A Force for Change by John Ombrog

 

Participants can still submit their entries for this theme till 31st January 2022. Check Schedule for more details.

 

‘Architecture for Healing’ is a theme that is part of the contest series ArchWeekly, a new brand of journal competitions inviting participants to engage in critical conversations on selected themes from several disciplines of architecture and design.

Discover the other themes and take part in multiple contests to experience the joy of writing over a range of subjects. Check out the schedule to find reward incentives and key deadlines!

 

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Architecture For Healing

Healing is a therapeutic experience of improving human health and behavior. While care is mostly focused on fixing the body, there is a growing recognition that our healthcare requires to expand the focus on healing. Designing spaces that lead to healing experiences has to be developed. Architecture provides us with an opportunity to create such spaces that can have an optimal psychological impact on users.

There is limited scientific research confirming design solutions for creating healing spaces, but the literature study revealed the relationship.

The competition aims for participants to explore the connection of elements of architecture and how it establishes a healing envelope in the healthcare setting.

 

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Questions

1. What is healing architecture as a concept? 

Healing is a positive, subjective and unpredictable process. Architecture for healing includes various components that contribute to the healing process. The architecture acts as a mediator as these components are unified together to form a healing environment. What is an optimal healing environment? 

 

2. What are components and design factors of healing architecture?

Certain components lead to an easy design process. What are the psychological, social and functional components? What are the principles?

 

3. How to design architecture for healing? 

Learning about the various architectural elements that are contributors and detractors of healing space. How can design and material have an impact on the treatment of mind and body?  

 

4. What are the important principles that drive architecture for healing? 

A design process aimed towards healing involves various steps. What are these steps for designing healing architecture? How are they executed?

 

5. What are projects that change the dialogue of how architecture for healing should be?

In healthcare facilities and rehabilitation centers, these healing spaces are designed to target human issue. (Eg: Drug De - addiction Centre for Muktangan Mitra, Pune) Explore some examples? What are these projects like? How are they designed?

 

6. List some books/research on healing architecture.

Various books and research papers provide us with essential knowledge about the subject. Name and explain some of these books? Study and explain how architecture can be a contributor in the healing process?

 

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Deliverables

Participants shall deliver a written article of about 1000 - 1500 words with no more than 3 images, in a cohesive piece that answers the above questions or arguments presented. A cover of size [2000px x 1000px] must also be uploaded with the writing submission. 

The images must be copyright free or the participant must own the rights of the images used. 

 

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How to submit?

Read all the challenge rules and details from the sidebar, and hit register. You can pay the entry fee and book your registration right away. Once you are ready with your essay - begin uploading via your journal tab – and add images and text in the sequence you are asked in. Once done, go to the competitions tab and link this journal.

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