Is there a possiblity the psychiatric clinic becomes a building operates to our emotions, therefore architecture?

Tereza Galuszková

From the 90th years there is a significant increase in psychiatric outpatient care, which is due to the fact that there has been a growing emphasis on prevention and social rehabilitation of patients and that there is a shift from inpatient to parts of transmural psychiatric facility in the Czech republic. Psychiatric care in the Czech Republic remains from the state authorities – particularly the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Finance – are still considerably underestimated. But psychiatric care is at high level compared to other EU countries in professional and organizational terms.
The author presents the report on her diploma projects – architectural design, Psychiatric clinic in the area of Thomayerova´s Hos­pital and Policlinic in Prague. She explains her approach and she documents her own design of clinic through images.

(Fulltext in Czech)