Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Centre ( Healing Architecture )

Abstract

Addiction and substances abuse has been a crucial issue among the world including in Indonesia. Many efforts has been done to solve this issue such as imprisonment and rehabilitation. Imprisonment is the most way for punishment and it is not effective for the abusers in restoring thei r life. As a human being, they have the rights to be rehabilitated as the best way in rebuilding their individual and social life. The purpose of this study is to to learn about substances abuse and behaviour of the abuser in order to design the most suitable rehabilitation centre. Architectural design could be the part of recovery process with the healing architecture approach. Healing architecture helps people to restore and relieve their mind and soul that affect the body. Each substances abuser has its own psychological problem depends on the substance abuse. Those problems effect the way of designing the building and landscape. The principles of healing architecture can solve those problems and create the design concepts.The healing architecture design concepts are outlined in the landscape design, masses placement, and interior design. The various atmosphere of the spaces with the harmony of nature and site could be the solution for psychological problem. Organic pattern from healing architecture creating the envi ronment to be an architecture design that heals