AE Inpatient
As a mental health healing ground, ae inpatient is both a community center and youth inpatient facility. Ae inpatient is inspired by the nature of recovery through mental illnesses itself, with a rigid, oppressive exterior structure that represents the beginning stages of depression and an expansive, healing interior representing the beginning stages of recovery. Triangular panels were chosen to redirect the view of pedestrians and patients towards the edges of their view frame, to move their eyes up. On the outside, these panels expand the building’s envelope to encroach on the public space. A feeling of discomfort and smallness is felt by those on a pedestrian scale, which symbolizes the first stages of a mental illness. As someone walks into the space, it is bright and healing, which symbolizes the treatment itself patients receive.
Arc 306 | Collab w. Ashley Lee | Spring 2022
