Architecture for specific patients (Case study of psychiatric patients with schizophrenia)

Abstract

One of the centers that has high sensitivity for design is psychotherapy center because of special physical, mental and sentimental conditions of their patient. Design and architecture of psychotherapy centers and caring mental patients are new subjects; and there was no attempt to study and design of this center by specialist. To start design of every usage, recognition of habitants of that place is necessary. Recognition and understanding of different needs of Schizophrenic patients and attempt to meet their needs and respect to priority of these needs in designing and improving their special spaces can be effective in improvement of its quality. Schizophrenia is a chronic and debilitating illness which is associated with impaired social and occupational skills and it affects approximately one percent of the world population. The subject of this interdisciplinary article is architecture and psychology. Purposes of that are obtaining a codified agreement, design standards and present an architectural pattern for treatment and positive influences on mental disorders of schizophrenic patients and his return to a normal life.

Keywords

• psychiatric centers
• architecture
• schizophrenia