07 September 2005
Courtyard Garden – a new social ‘heart’
I’m interested in the designed landscape, particularly gardens and walled gardens. That theme has run through all my work from very early on… I think that what I’m making is a kind of paradise. I’m quite interested in the concept of paradise..
Artist Jane Kelly has been working with patients, staff and visitors at Dykebar to explore the rich history of agricultural and horticultural site use in relation to clinical care and therapeutic activities. Kelly has used this research to develop
designs for a new courtyard garden.
Long corridors, terrifying long corridors and murals
one of the things that really struck me on first viewing was that it was fifty metres long… featureless, daunting.. almost Hitchcockian…Here you have a main corridor serving as a visual and physical reminder that you’re in an institution.watch video interview.
The redevelopment of the main corridor in Dykebar is underway. The artist Donald Urquhart‘s
detailed designs reveal a different perspective.
PLOT - Psychiatric Hospital Denmark
Theatre of illusion or psycho-mayonaise? Know that feeling of entering a space that has an illusive quality, something you cannot quite grasp, yet it enhances the mind, focuses the thought, reveals an intention, compels you? The curtain draws on PLOT the architectural practice who translate your stories to create your script.
‘PLOT was founded in Copenhagen in January 2001 by architects Julien De Smedt and Bjarke Ingels. PLOT was founded in order to develop an architectural practice that turns intense research and analysis of practical as well as theoretical issues into the driving forces of design.
A better way to explain the office's design philosophy and process is to explain its name: a narrative is a series of events, that are tied together in a PLOT. Each event contains insight, drama and beauty in itself, but without the PLOT they risk to fail and become nothing but the sum of the parts. Individually the incidents may seem random or pointless, but joined they culminate in a transcending will. In the same way the PLOT makes architecture more than a random accumulation of toilets and bedrooms. Beautiful details and individual moments get lost if nothing is at stake - if the PLOT is missing...
As the base of design we interviewed patients, personel and relatives related to the psychiatric hosptial. No truth emerged, but a series of paradoxes became evident. The PSY needs to combine the efficiency of a central organsiation with the freedom and autonomy of a decentralised complex. It needs to allow control and protection while maintaining a free and open atmosphere. In terms of function the PSY is a logistically optomised hospital and in terms of experience it is all but a hospital.’
Helsingor Psychiatric Hospital
Cited by Jane Kelly
The Architecture of Health - BBC Radio 4
Wed 21 Sep, 21:00 - 21:30 30 mins
Second of a two part programme
A well-designed healthcare building is not just for show. It has now been proved scientifically that certain aspects of a hospital's design can actually contribute to speedier recovery, better working of the immune system and a safer stay in hospital, with fewer infections and medical errors.
Dykebar Postcard Competition
The Environmental Development Group invite you to enter your Digital Photos to make a postcard for Dykebar Hospital.
Full details of how to enter.
Salutogenesis at Philipps-University Marburg
Moving within the building the sense of coherence of the physicians, patients and students is challenged.
As doctors, lecturers of students and seniors to our juniors we
perform on the lowest level, namely level 3 among all laboratories and post mortems of today’s Cartesian medicine. We have to overcome five to seven floors in order to reach the top floors where our patients are. Those floors represent the cultural sedimentations rates which have led to the "crisis of European science". The sedimentation is between us and the phenomena, we are covered by sediment. How can we get rid of it? Wolfram Schüffel
Evaluating changes to the environment at Dykebar
Environmental Psychologist, Dr Eddie Edgerton (University of Paisley) is leading
evaluation work to assess the impact of environmental changes at Dykebar.
Signs for remembered spaces
Our intention was that the signs would initiate a dialogue, question perceived ideas of the environment and reveal issues of orientation and cultural shifts arising from infrastructural changes.
In November 2002 artists Chris Helson and Sarah Jackets began a period of consultation with staff and patients at Dykebar, their brief was to work with Ginkgo Projects to develop an Art Commissioning Plan and produce a pilot project.
The result of the pilot project was a temporary art work
Signs for remembered spaces, the outcome of the collaborative consultation was the formation of the Environmental Development Group and The Finding Space Projects.
