Leves Sombras da Serenidade - captação do diálogo entre matéria e psique na Clínica Psiquiátrica de Södra Älvsborg

Abstract

This work arose from a curiosity to explore the dialog between internal and external worlds. Paying particular attention to cases where this relationship is seen as atypical, such as the treatment of psychological disorders through psychiatric hospitalization, we sought to gather elements that would inform a broader analysis and debate on the subject. We placed ourselves in a context that is particularly pertinent given the circumstances that underlie this issue, where the promotion and sensitization of mental health through the design of space is more frequently seen, affirming the role of architecture as a complement to that of its native disciplines. In this sense, we have resorted to the study of written thoughts and built works considered to be illustrative of the direction taken in this paradigm shift. It was in the course of this interdisciplinary analysis that we selected a practical case study which, on the one hand, would summarize some of the relevant spatial principles for designing mental health spaces, and on the other hand, would also serve as a phenomenological and artistic object of study which, through the use of a photographic device capable of communicating moments of strong spatial phenomenology, would express the link between this architecture and some of its design principles. We found in certain premises within the scope of research into the phenomenology of space the ability to support our quest for these same conjectures, allowing two of the dialogues between inside and outside to be brought into tangent - that of a human with their environment; and that of architecture with its context. Starting with an initial documentary and descriptive photographic capture of the spaces visited, we worked towards a photographic device that, born from the spatial characteristics of one of the works visited, would simultaneously combine its process of fixing light on a physical support with the intuitive handling of that device.