Perancangan Art Therapy Center di Binjai dengan Pendekatan Healing Environment

Abstract

Mental health disorders are rampant and often taken for granted in society, especially among today's teenagers. Many teenagers decide to end their lives by killing themselves because they feel that the burden they face cannot be told or shared with others, and there is no solution to deal with it. The government is still unresponsive to mental health issues as evidenced by the lack of mental health facilities in Indonesia. The public's view of the importance of mental health is also still taboo and gives a negative stigma or labeling people with mental health disorders as crazy. Art therapy is one of the therapeutic methods that can cure mental health problems with an art approach. Therefore, the design of an art therapy center is a solution to mental health problems among Generation Z adolescents. The design of the art therapy center considers the behavior of its users so that users can feel safe, comfortable, free to express themselves, and free from negative views of society. The design is also based on the healing environment approach; which involves the integration of physical, social, and psychological aspects to create an atmosphere conducive to the therapy process and the environment as the main factor in the healing process.