Abstract:
ABSTRACT
There are only five government psychiatric hospitals in Pakistan with 3000 beds and private institutes 4000 beds capacity, 1% of the population has severe mental disorder. The most common diseases are mood and personality disorder, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder. There is no community center which provides basic facilities before the problem get severe. People treat mental illness as taboo in society. If you have mental illness and end up in the mental hospital it’s never the same again. You are labeled abnormal for life. When mentally ill sent into one isolated environment called mental asylum creates a taboo for life, never allowing them to get back to normal life. Understanding the physical and psychological effects of architecture on a person with mental disorder is an important tool that can enhance the behavior of individual and the ability to function to improve their quality of life. Architecture used as healing environment to create and add up the usual treatment that psychiatric patients required. Therapies can provide opportunities and encouragement for social and vocational activities in daily life that can direct the patient’s progress toward the goal of normal life. Space affects on the body and body responds to space in terms of perception is use for the design of center. The concept of deinstitutionalization is use to treat psychiatric patients, and architecture help them relate more to the surrounding, and give freedom within the spaces. Freedom is the basic concept, security will be provided not through the visible fence and separation of space, but through the architectural design.
