A document submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters, in the Graduate Program in Architecture, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. The built environment has been found to improve the effectiveness of available treatment methods by increasing perceived sense of self by providing a meaningful cultural and personal connection to its users.
Introduction
Background
Motivation/Justification of the Study
This study establishes possible reasons for the aforementioned and alarmingly low rates of successful recovery and explores the inherent potential of the built environment to increase the effectiveness of addiction treatment. The intention is that the research describes the ways in which the built environment - together with existing treatment therapies - can directly and positively influence the rehabilitation process from addiction.
Definition of the Problem, Aims and Objectives
Definition of the Problem
Describe the nature of addiction and determine how the built environment affects the perception of an addicted person. Formulate an approach to the built environment that addresses the disease of addiction and mitigates the physical and socioeconomic contributors to its occurrence.
Setting Out the Scope
- Definitions of terms
- Delimitation of the Research Problem
- Stating the Assumptions
- Hypotheses
- Research Questions
- Research Methods and Materials
- Primary Research
- Secondary Research
Milieu is the multitude of objects that make up the built environment Morphology refers to the nature of the built form. How the psychological origins of addiction are affected by a person's perception of the built environment.
Theoretical Framework
Shame Resilience Theory
It also deals in its morphology with similar social issues experienced in addiction to social stigma, privacy, affiliation and accessibility, all of which form part of the theoretical framework to be tested in the study. Yingst retreat illustrates the nature of a personal identity that enhances that of the context and was tested against the theoretical framework to define manifestations of rest, intimacy and sanctuary in the built environment.
The Postmodern Paradigm of Phenomenology
- Perception
- Dwelling
The Dyson Center was studied as an example of the proven health benefits of the built environment, to the physical and psychological well-being of the users of a space. In examining the concept of man's perception of the built environment and the physiological and psychological ways it has an impact on sufferers of addiction, the postmodern.
Behaviourism
- Empirical Learning
Conclusion
The result is a built environment that inspires a positive self-perception and, consequently, an inherent sense of belonging to a place and being a valued part of the community. The built environment, which affects the perception of the personal value of its users, is therefore not limited to the welfare of addicts, but to society in general.
A Disease of Perception
- The Duality of Addiction
- The Duality of Treatment
- WholeHearted Living
- Summary
This can be expressed in the built environment by creating community spaces that give a sense of love and belonging to a place and thus encourage mutual connection between people. The universal truths of the perception of oneself and one's built environment, however, play a profound role in the recovery process, as does the spirit of community and belonging.
Expanding Perceptions
Introduction
Perception
- The Perceptual Systems
- The Haptic System
- Perceiving Atmosphere
- Visual Perception
Achieving a haptic perception of the built environment therefore involves activating any of the tactile senses through physical interaction with it. It is therefore important to understand each of the senses in terms of how they inform one's perception of the built environment.
Summary
Gestalt principles of visual perception (Figure 7) are mentioned in Christian Norber-Schulz's talk on providing a meaningful connection with the built environment by enabling identification and spatial orientation within it. The means by which these two aspects of the built environment are achieved is through the perception of one's environment, which is proposed to be characterized by the visual organization defined in the Gestalt principles of visual perception.
A Sense of Worthiness
- The Existential Foothold
- The Concept of Dwelling
- Atmosphere
- Four Modes of Dwelling
- Fulfilling Soul Needs - Spiritual Functionalism
- Summary
Dwelling thus becomes an expression of our understanding of the meanings inherent in the milieu of the built environment. Meaning in the built environment is the construct of built form (morphology); its spatial organization (topology); the principles it contains as an act of function (typology) and the relevance of approaching these in a physical and historical context.
An Empirical Learning
Introduction
Environmental Psychology
- Meeting Human Needs
By realizing one's own physical vulnerability, self-actualization can take place and ultimately, through recognizing one's counterpoint in another, self-transcendence can take place (TEDx, 2010). The built environment serves self-actualization and self-transcendence by meeting people's cognitive and aesthetic needs.
Affordances - Learning from the Built Environment
- Incidental Learning - Enriched and Participatory Environments
- Operant Conditioning
A sterile environment offers very few opportunities for this learning, while an enriched environment allows for abundant learning through physical and mental exploration of the built environment (Lang & Moleski, 2010). The impact of the built environment on the user was more deterministic than is normatively accepted today.
Conclusion
60 | Page visible in many industries today, it is interesting and encouraging to note that the patients themselves often have a keen and surprisingly accurate idea of what they need to recover. 34;We imagined that our professionals had the answers to our clients' life problems. The longer I work, the more I realize that it is our customers who hold the answers, and our job is to provide the light and water needed for them to bloom."
Introduction
Catering to Soul Needs - The Dyson Centre for Neonatal Care
Motivation
An Atmosphere of Care
The atmosphere of the center touches the emotional sensibilities in response to the perception of calm and the cognition of calm, engulfed by the tactile use of natural materials that express the healing and ethereal quality of the abundance of light within. The height of the window seats encourages relaxation, enhanced by the views outside, while the depth of the window ensures a comfortable seat and the light is less harsh inside the hall.
Health-Giving Tranquillity
65 | Page The sketch section figure 24 below describes the holistic approach to creating an environmentally as well as emotionally sustainable healthcare facility that simultaneously engages the auditory, visual, haptic and emotional perceptual systems to create an atmosphere of healing for all users of the space. create. .
Summary
This idea is suitable for the concept of universal knowledge of spaces in the built environment that satisfy the mental needs of a being worthy of care.
Communal Dwelling - Ubuntu Centre, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Introduction
Contemplating and Visualizing - Accessibility as a Tool of Empowerment
The varying and rising heights that move away from the pedestrian sidewalk interface allow the building to appear as a complex of built forms that represent the urban environment and give it the perception of an environment to be explored and embraced. There is an honesty in the use of materials in their raw, muted forms that speak to the simplicity and ordinariness of the surrounding built environment.
Summary
This allows the building to be embraced by the community as a landmark in the environment, encouraging a connection between the community and the principles the organization stands for.
Retreat and Reflection - Yingst Retreat, Michigan, USA
- Motivation
- Autonomy, Identity and Belonging - A Contextual Response
- Enrichment and Simplicity - The Healing Power of the Environment
- Chaos and Order - The Natural Rhythm of Routine
- Summary
Viewing the building through the trees places the form within its context in a way that describes the importance of the relationship. Openings become opportunities for the enrichment of the environment that is essential in the treatment of brain disorders and diseases.
Introduction
Motivation
Cedars Addiction Treatment Center is located on an old farm in Dududu, near Scottburgh, Durban. Cedars was chosen as a case study for an analysis of the effect of a rural setting on the efficacy of addiction treatment and to test the notion of identity in a place as a source of emotional security.
The Power of Natural Affiliation
79 | Scroll The porch becomes a semi-public area that filters access to the house and is visually connected to the kitchen block, to the right of the front entrance and the administration office, at the main entrance at the side entrance. The interior is illuminated by the use of large windows that allow an abundance of natural light and ventilation to filter through the home and draw attention to the extensive use of wood throughout.
Summary
Spiritual Structuring - Elim Clinic, Kempton Park, Johannesburg
Spiritual Principles and Mental Order
86 | P a g e The scale of the built environment also suits the nature of the residential areas closest to it, while offering a home-like respite in contrast to the urban nature of the industrial area opposite. Its distinctive form lends a sense of richness and intrigue to the otherwise conservative architectural expression, just as the events of calm, reflection and spiritual order it houses give an identity to the recovery process that the facility's users embrace.
Summary
Accessible Choice - SANCA Phoenix House, Johannesburg
Motivation
Supporting Communities - A Central Response
The atmosphere as a construction of the building's meaning is one of silence and protection. The warmth of natural materials and the homely language of the internal space contrasts with the formal, more institutional language of the external space.
Summary
91 | Page describing an intriguing relationship between perceived and actual experience - symbolic of the contradictory nature of the disease of addiction.
Discussion and Conclusion
Introduction
Learning to Live
Furthermore, abstinence from substance abuse is the easier part of the recovery process. The ultimate goal of the Minnesota Model of Addiction Therapy is to encourage and promote self-awareness and self-transcendence and the subsequent assistance of recovering addicts who are less experienced in the program than yourself.
Quantitative Study Analysis and Discussion
- Introduction
- Demographics
- Disease History
- The Recovery Process
The focus group discussion on the shame results attributes the absence of these feelings as an indication of the program's success. The focus group discussion extended this sense that the disease of addiction is a 'spiritual disease' that cannot be cured by psychological therapy or psychiatric drugs.
Potential and Actual Behaviour Settings - An Intuitive Response
- Introduction
- Redhill Meeting
- Malvern Meeting
- Musgrave Meeting
- Summary
The Malvern meeting showed the same trends as the Redhill meeting, being centered towards the back of the room, with the first third of the room acting as a semi-private zone between the group and the entrance area. The size of the room and the number of participants also provide an increased sense of privacy and intimacy, thereby promoting a greater sense of community.
Conclusion
Introduction
This much-needed move away from the overly efficient and often impersonal modernist approach describes an attitude of person-centered care where all components of the whole are considered and valued, thus affirming the nature of the relationship between the built environment and addiction therapy as symbiotic in effective addiction treatment. The consequences of the modernist approach in the context of the built environment include a sense of endlessness and a loss of sense of belonging within a built environment without personal or cultural meaning.
Built for Meaning
Life-Discovery - A Design Approach
It is clear from the case studies that although spiritual principles and practices are at the heart of the 12-step recovery program, as highlighted in the survey results and focus group discussions, little focused attention is given to the numinous in the built environment. Safety : Safety, especially in the early stages of recovery, is essential to the addict and the public at large.
The Topography of Health - An Approach to Locality
The need for economic ingenuity also provides an interesting opportunity to find innovative solutions to the problem. The use of natural materials also contributes to the atmosphere of care and well-being as you reconnect with nature.
Conclusion
115 | P a g e But where urban locations provide an enriched built environment, providing the mental and physical stimulation beneficial for the treatment of brain diseases such as addiction; they do not provide much opportunity for response to the existing natural topology, which is unique to a particular place. According to the study, the location of rehabilitation centers should be based on existing public transport infrastructure; sufficient opportunities to express the natural topography of a site; ensuring maximization of optimal light from the correct orientation and within sufficient distance from external social environments to prevent isolation and far enough away to allow privacy and the intrusion of unwanted sounds.
Introduction
- Justification of the Building Typology
- Project Description
This, according to the research and proven by the aforementioned low rates of successful recovery, indicates an inefficiency in the design or consideration of the importance of the creation of a specific addiction treatment facility. The study also described shortages in the majority of the current supply of addiction treatment centers, both locally and internationally.
The Notional Clients
- The Clients' Objectives
- The Clients' Brief
- End-User Profile and Occupancy Calculations
- Schedule of Accommodation
These all go towards the formation of the proposed typology of a Life-Recovery Facility, which aims to take care not only of those affected by addiction, but those affected by them, including their families and larger society. The overall goal is to achieve a built environment that positively affects the users' perception of themselves in order to encourage a healing process that begins at the core of the problem.
Site Selection and Analysis
- Site Options and Criteria
- Urban Analysis
- Site Analysis
The disadvantages of the site are a limited amount of space for functions such as urban farming on a commercial scale, which will need to be carefully considered. The site benefits from views over the harbor to the south and the iconic sugar terminals to the west.
DESIGN PRECEDENT STUDIES
- Introduction
- Spiritual Introspection - Bruder Klaus Field Chapel, Mechrenich, Germany
- Natural Dwelling - A Contextual Response - ASU Polytechnic Campus
- Atmosphere - Safe Haven Library, Ban Tha Song Yang, Thailand
The choice of materials also captures the surrounding palette and works to soften the regular and clean lines of the building. The intention is, in the same way that the ASU Polytechnic campus aims to use materials to connect the building with its natural context in color and light, so too the rehabilitation center wants to belong to its natural as well as man-made context in a way that expresses the culturally known.
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK AND DESIGN DRIVERS
- Introduction
- Application of Theoretical Framework
- Perception
- Dwelling
- Empirical Learning
- Conceptual Development
- The Premise
- The Developed Premise
- The Design Concept
- Design Drivers
- Users' Requirements
- Social Considerations
- Economic Considerations
- Ecological Considerations
- Construction materials
- Conclusion
Do you think the idea of the therapeutic community and learning from others has made a substantial difference to your recovery? How do you think a person's perception of themselves, their identity and place in the world is affected by the disease?
