Healing Psychosis City - Part 3

An extensive and growing body of evidence suggests that urban living contributes to the development of psychosis; However, the mechanisms underlying this phenomenon remain unclear.  This project will attempt to spatialise psychosis within the urban context in order to create a form of architecture which will help mitigate / reduce the development of psychosis in the urban environment. 

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Design Summary;

Critiquing the existing Abito apartment complex located in Salford as a form of urban Architecture that fosters and encourages the condition of psychosis to then redesign the complex, with reference to the existing, In a way that aims to mitigate the detrimental effects that the urban environment has on the development of psychosis.  

An organic apartment complex housing 100 studio apartments. The unique, free-flowing design was produced via research conducted in ST1 and ST2 through the use of a wide range of creative methodologies. Much of the research carried out took a sensitive approach through analysing the condition of psychosis itself as well as actors suffering from the condition.

 

Some key design drivers of the design include;

Reducing social isolation and exclusivity, a move away from modernism towards a more non-linear, organic design, natural daylight and an improved connection with the natural world, equality of space, adaptability of space, and taking advantage of the surrounding features of the site.