Informal visit to Östra Sjukhuset, Psychiatry

Östra Sjukhuset psychiatry clinic in Göteborg, is designed by White Arkitekter, and opened in 2006. It doesn't give the classic image of a clinic, and also as mentioned in White.se, the healing environment was thought to be important for s healing process, so they thought about working on a pleasant design from patient's view.
The building g received Forum for Healthcare Building Research’s Healthcare Award 2007 also nominated for Healthcare Buildings.

www.white.se
http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=11558

Since I am going to meet Michael Nilsson next week to get information on neurology and rehabilitering, I simply didn't want to bother doctors in the psychiatry clinic today asking questions like what are your treatments.. how do you threat.. why like that... I am keeping these questions for my second visit (hopefully)

So as for the building, the architects achieved the openness and closeness very well with the interior courtyards. Patient and some treatments room face the courtyard, which gives them a private space to exterior. (also provides a smoking space!)

 The courtyards are visible from common circulation halls, corridors but not accessible. All literature I have read about environments and brain, nature and view to nature is the most basic and important rule for the patients perception. It is always positive. For almost all the mental disorders I have read thorough, the researches imply either to have an access to the garden, to have a window facing garden (preferably south) or at least a picture of nature! And for this building what I appreciated most was the accessibility of the garden. They made a clever move and levelled the garden, so both 3rd and 2nd floor can access. 4th floor requires stairs, (the yellow steel boxes standing on wooden legs) but it can be seen as a design element for the garden (also not so many rooms on 4th floor) or maybe these stairs can be classified as "stimuli"

The common interior corridor (which is not locked, the adjacent rooms are for auditorium, seminar rooms etc..) are lit from courtyards, and shaded with fixed wooden panels...
The corridor makes small glazed rooms to the courtyard creating a semi-isolated space for informal meetings...



Pictures
As I have mentioned earlier even a picture of nature shows positive impulses on patients. And as I read however the society (so do I) appreciates more abstract paintings, as Picasso, Dali.. or any contemporary art, the damaged brain doesn't show any comfort signals or even these paintings occur stress in brains of the patients.

 These nature pictures, which were 3dimensioan with triangular forms, was in the cafe. In my opinion with the irregular shape it can work as a brain stimuli, and the basic natural colors and view can have a calming effect?

On the hallways I came across to these abstract paintings, or arts, which was rather conflicting. But as I said I haven't talked to any doctor or anyone responsible for architecture or interior of the building yet. I am reflecting on my own to preapare new questions and new researches...