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Healing and Wellness Center: Chapter # 1 - Introduction
Healing and Wellness Center: Chapter # 1 - Introduction
THESIS TOPIC:
Submitted by: TOOBA SAEED
HEALING AND WELLNESS CENTER 70074236
CHAPTER # 1 - INTRODUCTION
THESIS STATEMENT:
This healing and wellness center intend to heal a person’s holistically (mind, body, spirit and emotions)
by natural ways without medications in Lahore.
DISCRIPTION:
Medications are also helpful but one can never get healed without a better and fresh environment. The
intent of this center is to help patients connect with nature to help aid in the healing processes. Exposure
to nature can not only make people feel better emotionally, but physically as well. Any environment a
person is exposed to has the ability to either increase or decrease stress which in turn can impact our
bodies. The things we see, hear, or experience can affect our moods and how certain systems in our
bodies are working.
Architecture that incorporates nature can have an impact on its everyday users, and people with anger
and fear, suffering from depression, anxiety, stress, inferiority complex and the bipolar states.
Typology of people requiring treatment:
1. INTENSIVE CARE - Immediate, long term treatment
2. HEALING PROCESS - Regular, long term treatment
3. MINOR ISSUES - seldom visits treatment
4. FUNCTIONAL – 1 or more visits
BACKGROUND:
The way the environment is perceived deeply effects one’s thinking and behavior. The important fact
being that the outside environment is the most important determinant of the inner mental life. Existing
psychological hospitals does not provide the environment to the patients necessary for their treatment
and also for their better and quick recovery.
Long throughout history healing spaces have been used as an aid in the healing process, from the
temples of ancient Greece to the Japanese Zen Garden. With modern medical technology, the use of
healing spaces as a way to help in the healing process has diminished.
So, it is decided to plan healing and wellness center with the environment which would be suitable for
their treatment and quick recovery naturally and also give them homely feeling. Also, there is only 1
healing center in Pakistan, ‘SuJok natural healing center - Karachi’.
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• The idea behind bringing the wellness center into the most urban of environments in the city like
Lahore, is to prove healing can be achieved in a notoriously unhealthy environment.
• The thesis focuses on creating architecture that enhances spiritual healing by acting as a medium
between human soul and the energy of the universe.
• Enjoinment and responses from other people are more important and work wonders to build back
the self-esteem and psychological illness then medication.
• The focus is on people with unmanageable lives because every other person is overstressed due to
a race to strive in the society.
• I want to explore that how the ancient’s spiritual traditions and spaces helped in healing oneself.
• I don’t want to make a medical complex but create an environment that forms its own identity as a
place where one goes to rebalance their imbalanced life.
• My objective is to create a structure where individual will not feel that they are treated.
• Patient education on lifestyle changes and self-care to promote wellness. This may include diet,
exercise, psychotherapy, relationship and spiritual counseling, and more
• Service staff
• Visitors
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• Yoga
• Meditation/ Qigong
• Crystal Healing
• Quantum Healing
2. Therapeutic healing:
Different bath and massage therapy, musical therapy, and other different therapies based on different
individuals survey.
• Musical therapy
• Aromatic therapy
• Hydro therapy
• Massage therapy
• Color therapy
• Acupuncture
• Moxibustion
• Mind-body healing
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3. Counseling:
Counseling as individual one to one talk with a professional or group talk with other people.
• Group conversations
• Individual counseling
• Gym
• Swimming
• Cycling
• Aerobics
• Dance class
• Gaming zone
• Indoor sports
• Outdoor sports
• Recreational gatherings
6. Reading therapy:
Reading books and other articles or religious books can also be a therapy for some people.
• Library
7. Arts and crafts activities:
• Painting
• Pottery
• Woodworking
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PLANNING CONSIDERATION:
• To create a unified environment where physical and mental healing takes place.
CITATION:
▪ Chrysikou, E – 2014 https://www.iospress.nl/book/architecture-for-psychiatric-environments-and-
therapeutic-
spaces/#:~:text=Therapeutic%20architecture%20can%20be%20described,physiologically%20and%
20psychologically%20into%20design.
▪ Article by; TNN – 2019 https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/home-
remedies/5-most-effective-energy-healing-techniques-and-how-they-
work/articleshow/70698807.cms
▪ Thomas Owens of Re-Space – 2020 https://workinmind.org/2020/01/17/the-new-science-of-
therapeutic-architecture-and-what-it-could-mean-for-your-workplace/
▪ https://www.webmd.com/balance/guide/what-is-holistic-medicine#1