Magiera, J. (2022). Healing city. Mental health clinic in Wałbrzych with circular economy as a foreground. [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2022.93206
Mental health and wellbeing can be identified as one of the major challenges of the 21st century. Even the most common mental health issues such as anxiety, stress or depression demand a complex and longterm treatment of patients and their environment. Moreover, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic negatively affects both mental health and the operation of unprepared mental health facilities.This project is a reaction to increasing mental health problems now additionally escalated by the pandemic. In order to respond to these needs, the contemporary meaning of mental health care has been identified. Thereafter it was analysed how clinics respond through their spatial arrangement to a given approach to psychiatric treatment. Out of concern for the climate and the environment, and taking into account the current economic and social problems in Poland, the materiality of the project was defined according to the principles of circular planning.This project is a response to the needs of the inhabitants of Wałbrzych; both sick and healthy, an attempt to maintain the continuation of the existing heritage and a reaction to the ongoing climatic, economic and social changes
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