Centro de tratamento psiquiátrico bieno

Abstract

With the psychiatric reform that took place in Brazil and the world in recent decades, a new humanized paradigm was outlined for the treatment of psychiatric patients. The new parameters for the mental health system, then, prompted several areas of knowledge to meet it’s demands, and architecture was one of them. With the emergence of neuroarchitecture, professionals in the area began to deal with how spaces can provide well-being, and even healing, with the junction of knowledge between architecture and neuroscience. This project’s purpose is to design a psychiatric treatment center in a public-private partnership that, combined with neuroarchitecture, provides a humane environment for the treatment of mental illnesses. In the anti-asylum context created by the sector's reforms, one of the biggest challenges faced by this project is to escape the architectural clichés associated with former asylums, which still inhabit the collective mind as a stage for suffering of all kinds.