Psychiatric and mental hospital
Date
2020
Authors
ZAYED, YASMEEN
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Redefining the concept of therapy and psychiatry to create green spaces designed specifically
to stimulate treatment through contemplation and to create spaces for multiple internal and
external treatment activities with a modern and comfortable design that encourages the
orientation towards psychotherapy.
The building was designed with straight lines that meet its ends with curved lines to
eliminate the idea of the presence of sharp corners that negatively affect the patient's
psychological treatment program.
The green roofs were combined with the natural land that was dealt with, manipulated, and
designed in the middle area to be an area of contemplation while it was left on its nature in the
rest of the areas to help the idea of being in nature and exploiting its psychological reflection on
the patient.
Rather, the shape of the building came from the idea of functional separation and the
separation of health cases of different degrees between acute, chronic and solitary, and the
external reception area was separated from the rest of the project blocks so that it does not
constitute any inconvenience or an effect on patients, and the movement between the blocks
was taken into account when needed and within the same block