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Mak, Helen Cherk Wing

Mental health is a vital aspect of one’s well-being that deeply infiltrates all facets of one’s life. Therefore, those afflicted with mental illness can experience significant distress, hardship, and even debilitating stigma. As mental health increasingly emerges at the forefront of medical discussions, architectural mindsets of the past need to dramatically alter as well. Architectural design principles coalesced with unprecedented remediation methods can inventively configure an environment which bolsters healing and promotes mental health. Situated in the bustling downtown Vancouver, elevated on the top of a parking garage, the complex of buildings interspersed throughout a garden imagines a new, reinvigorating atmosphere.

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University of British Columbia. ARCH 549

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0390966

Applied Science, Faculty of; Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of

Unreviewed

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