Healing Architecture

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Healing Architecture describes a planning approach in the architecture of healthcare buildings that recognizes architecture as a variable for supporting the physical and psychological well-being of staff, patients and relatives.

Concept emergence

The trailblazer for the concept of healing architecture was a study by architecture professor Roger Ulrich published in the science magazine Science in 1984 , in which two groups of patients were compared who, after having had identical operations, walked through their room windows either onto a park with trees or onto the concrete wall of the neighboring building could see. Patients who could see the park needed significantly fewer painkillers, suffered less from depression and could be discharged home one day earlier than the patients in the comparison group. In the period that followed, numerous other studies appeared that dealt with similar issues.

In their book “Heilende Arkitektur”, published in 2009, Frandsen and Mullins defined healing architecture as a supporting factor in the human healing process.

The department “Designing Hospitals and Health Care Buildings” at the Institute of Architecture at the Technical University of Berlin under the direction of Christine Nickl-Weller has treated Healing Architecture as one of its main research areas since 2009 and in 2013 published the conference volume “Health Care of the Future 4: Healing Architecture ". This is the first time that the term “Healing Architecture” is used in a publication in German-speaking countries.

Since then, a series of symposia and conferences on Healing Architecture have been held under the direction of Christine Nickl-Weller, on the one hand the symposium series "Healthcare of the Future" in Berlin in 2010, 2012 and 2014, and on the other hand that of the Federal Ministry of Health sponsored expert conference Healing Architecture as Keynote in Foreign Health Economics, Berlin 2011; Healing Architecture, St. Petersburg 2013; Healing Architecture as Stepping Stone to Innovative Healthcare, Dubai 2015.

Since then, the term "Healing Architecture" has been picked up and used in various writings and lectures.

background

Healing Architecture refers to the concept of the healing environment , which is mainly based on research results in neurosciences and environmental psychology, and expands this concept to include architectural issues (e.g. structural, programmatic and urban planning) and the perspective of the user group personnel, i.e. H. medical and nursing staff.

target

The overriding goal is to improve the quality of health buildings through an architecture that follows people's needs and supports their recovery. The central question of Healing Architecture is: How can architecture contribute to healing? Are defined. Specifically, Healing Architecture aims to improve healthcare in the following areas:

  • Patient recovery process
  • Working conditions of the staff
  • Support from relatives

Content

Factors such as light (natural and artificial), colors, reference to nature, the acoustic environment and air quality (temperature and ventilation) were identified as influencing factors that can have a beneficial effect in health buildings. With regard to the architectural layout, for example, the routing and its influence on improved orientation and the associated reduction in stress are examined. Accommodation in single rooms compared to shared rooms is related to hygiene, the transmission of infections and sleep behavior.

Christine Nickl-Weller and Hans Nickl present 10 theses on Healing Architecture in their book "Healing Architecture" under the titles: Basics, Identity, Social Justice, Urbanism, Politics, Program, Change, Space, Human, Challenges. The 10 theses illustrate the thematic range in which Healing Architecture moves.

As a research-based planning approach, Healing Architecture names the method of evidence-based design, which means planning taking into account scientifically proven interactions between the built environment and physical and mental well-being.

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Bibliography

  • Katharina Brichetti , Franz Mechsner : healing architecture. Experience, understand and design spatial qualities . transcript, Bielefeld 2019, ISBN 978-3-8376-4503-3 .
  • Frandsen, AK, Mullins, M., Ryhl, C., Folmer, MB, Fich, LB, Øien, TB, & Sørensen, NL: Helende arkitektur. Aalborg: Institute for Architecture and Medieteknologi. (Institute for Architecture and Design Skrift Series; No. 29). 2009, ISBN 978-87-7723-624-2 .
  • Christine Nickl-Weller; Hans Nickl: Healing Architecture. Braun Publishing AG, Salenstein 2013, ISBN 978-3-037-68140-4 .
  • Christine Nickl-Weller (ed.), Tanja Eichenauer (ed.), Stefanie Matthys (ed.): Health Care of the Future 4: Healing Architecture. Berlin: Medizinisch Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft 2013, ISBN 978-3-939-06962-1 .
  • Christine Nickl-Weller (Hg.), Stefanie Matthys (Hg.), Tanja Eichenauer (Hg.): Health Care of the Future 5: Healing Architecture & Communication. Berlin: Medizinisch Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2015, ISBN 978-3-95466-116-9 .
  • Valera Sosa, À., Matthys, S .: From concepts in Architecture to German Health Economics, A report on Healing Architecture as a Keynote in Foreign Health Economics . Ed .: Christine Nickl-Weller. Berlin: Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7983-2691-0 (online), (2nd edition, first published 2012).
  • Buether, Axel; Wöbker, Gabriele: Study 1 Intensive Care Units 3 and 5 Helios University Hospital Wuppertal "Assessment of the psychological and medical effects of the environmental factors color and light on patients and staff in intensive care medicine - Result: Reduction of the consumption of neuroleptics in the two intensive care units by an average of 30.1% ", 2019, DOI: 10.13140 / RG.2.2.28780.10884
  • Buether, Axel; Wöbker, Gabriele: Study 2 Intensive Care Unit B2-2 Helios Universitätsklinikum Wuppertal "Assessment of the psychological and health effects of the environmental factors color and light on patients and staff in intensive care medicine - result: Reduction of the sickness rate among nursing staff by an average of 23.1%", 2020, DOI : 10.13140 / RG.2.2.31296.69127

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roger S. Ulrich: View through a window may influence recovery from surgery. Science , April 27, 1984, 224 - 420 (2) ( PDF; 15 kB ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link accordingly Instructions and then remove this notice. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mdc.mo.gov
  2. ↑ Frandsen, AK, Mullins, M., Ryhl, C., Folmer, MB, Fich, LB, Øien, TB, & Sørensen, NL (2009). Helende architecture. Aalborg: Institute for Architecture and Medieteknologi. (Institut for Arkitektur og Design Skrift Series; No. 29). ISBN 978-87-7723-624-2
  3. ↑ Christine Nickl-Weller (ed.), Tanja Eichenauer (ed.), Stefanie Matthys (ed.): Health Care of the Future 4: Healing Architecture. Berlin: Medizinisch Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft 2013, ISBN 978-3-939-06962-1
  4. ↑ a b Christine Nickl-Weller; Hans Nickl: Healing Architecture. Braun Publishing AG, Salenstein 2013, ISBN 978-3-037-68140-4 .