Thesis project title: Architecture for Health: Measuring the Therapeutic Quality of Architectural Space in Hospitals
In recent years, the field of design has been producing more and more projects focused on health, healing, and well-being (Cooper and Tsekleves 2017). The therapist’s cap seems increasingly to be slipped over the head of the architect, who is the main producer of the places where we live, work, care and entertain ourselves. The general research problem is the relationship between architecture and therapeutic care. Hence our research questions: to what extent can architecture contribute to therapeutic care in hospitals? And what are the post-occupancy approaches that seek to measure the therapeutic quality of a hospital space?
The aim of this research is to highlight the best therapeutic assets of three hospital building projects in Canada, and to develop a grid for measuring the therapeutic quality of a hospital architectural space.