Ikigai: centro integrado de cuidados em saúde mental infantojuvenil

Abstract

This Final Graduation Project develops the Ikigai – Integrated Mental Health Care Center for Children and Adolescents, located in Goiânia, Brazil, conceived as a public facility dedicated to the reception, treatment, and continuous support of young individuals experiencing psychological distress. The proposal articulates two complementary programmatic units: the Child and Adolescent Psychosocial Care Center (CAPSi), responsible for specialized clinical care, therapeutic monitoring, and strengthening of family and community bonds; and the Center for Integrative and Complementary Health Practic es (CPICS), which offers expressive and sensory-based therapies adapted to the child and adolescent population, such as art therapy, music therapy, guided meditation, children’s yoga, origamitherapy, shonishin, and shinrin-yoku (forest therapy). The project is guided by the Japanese concept of Ikigai, understood as one’s “reason for living”, and by the spatial principle of Ma (間), which values silence, pause, and the interval as essential elements for balance and meaning. These concepts are translated into architectural s pace through strategies grounded in neuroarchitecture, which recognizes the impact of the built environment on emotional and cognitive states. Therefore, the design prioritizes natural lighting, acoustic comfort, cross-ventilation, natural materials, the therapeutic presence of vegetation, sensory pathways, and internal contemplative cour tyards. The m ethodology includes bibliographic review, regulatory analysis, study of the Brazilian Psychosocial Care Network (RAPS), examination of architectural precedents, and development of the architectural parti in accordance with RDC No. 50/2002, NBR 9050:2020, and NBR 10152:2017. The result is a proposal that seeks to move beyond conventional hospital-centered models, adopting an interdisciplinary and humanized approach that promotes autonomy, emotional development, belonging, and well-being throughout childhood and adolescence.