H2020Индивидуална стипендия2015–2017

PEMETH · Planning and Evaluation Methodologies for Mental Healthcare Buildings

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2015-06-01 → 2017-05-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 195 455 €
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Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-ST

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Накратко на български

Архитектурата на психиатричните клиники и влиянието на разположението на стаите върху социалните контакти между пациентите са в центъра на анализа. Правилният дизайн на тези сгради помага да се избегнат социални проблеми и да се отговорят на нуждите на болните.

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Резултати накратко

Planning and Evaluation Methodologies for Mental Healthcare Buildings

The study of the environment of acute psychiatric facilities is fundamental for the care and treatment of vulnerable people. The fundamental questions that were addressed in this proposal were: (i) how the mechanisms of the built environment influence the personal and social milieu of psychiatric space and (ii) how the environmental requirements of mentally ill people according to their needs are met by the ward. By addressing these, I aimed to exploit the scientific tools of architectural morphology and in particular Space Syntax, and juxtapose them with a patient-focused, flexible model for the evaluation of psychiatric environment tool, the SCP model, to investigate therapeutic environment in an integrated way. The main research objectives of this proposal were: a) to advance the state of the art in mental health architecture, 2) to extend methodologies adopted by medical architecture and architectural morphology theories to the study of psychiatric space and 3) to create a new design framework that involves individual care needs and takes into account the social dynamics of space. Lack of knowledge of how space operates, might lead to buildings that generate social problems. By using these tools, I explored the architectural context of the selected psychiatric facilities in an integrated and innovative way, involving both the individual’s relation to the therapeutic regime and social relations to the spatial configuration. The research brought together the two frameworks, the SCP model and the Space Syntax, the first designed especially for mental healthcare and the latter that covers all spatial scale. The findings of this research set the design framework for a model for evidence-based healthcare architecture to serve as a design and evaluation tool, immediately accessible to architects, planners and stakeholders.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The study of psychiatric facilities is major for the care of vulnerable people. It is central to the study of therapeutic environment for mental health, great value for understanding mental illness and the psychosocial impact of the built environment and formulating interdisciplinary relations between architecture and health. In Europe, about 20% of the burden of disease relates to mental illness. With low diagnostic and low medical treatment accuracy factor, environment is key for quality of care and patients’ social re-integration. The key questions of this proposal are: (i) how the mechanisms of the environment influence the personal and social milieu of psychiatric space, and (ii) how the environmental needs of the mentally ill are met by wards. Work in other healthcare settings has shed some light on the first, yet little is known about the second. For these, the researcher aims to exploit the scientific tools of architectural morphology (Space Syntax) and juxtapose them with a patient-focused, model for the evaluation of psychiatric environment (the SCP model), to investigate environment in an integrated way. The research will be comparative of two methodologies and will involve facilities in the community as case studies for its physical locus. Those will be examined for their spatial qualities. The findings could set the framework for a model for evidence-based healthcare architecture to serve as design and evaluation tool, immediately accessible to architects and stakeholders. The final product will be design methods and guidelines for healthcare architecture and in particular for community psychiatric facilities immediately accessible to architects. The research is expandable, when environment is important in prevention and care strengthening the area between healthcare from one side and architecture on the other. However, the largest contribution is in architecture, a sector of great potential, yet in need of more interdisciplinary connections.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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