This studio is titled ‘Architecture of Psychosomatics’. Space has the potential to affect the psyche and the body. That is what makes architecture, spatial design and all other practices of space-making very powerful. Yet, many times this relationship is overlooked in favour of utility, efficiency and profit. The “clients” are treated as normalized and standardized bodies where certain needs and requirements are completely overlooked from the design decisions.
Starting from such a departure point, the studio explores the psychosomatics of space. It focuses on the “WHO” or what is usually referred to as the “client” or the “user”. Through shifting its focus from predefined conventional design factors to the psyche and the body of the client, it aims to get closer to the WHO’s always unique and diverse spatial experiences, needs, emotions, behaviours and habits. It acknowledges and brings attention to the very important fact that people experience the world and spaces around them differently and no two people have had the same experiences in their lives.
Design tutor: Nasim Razavian.