Creating Healing Space illustrated by the new Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital and Gardens

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Creating Healing Spaceillustrated by the new
Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital and Gardens

• We wish to create a place of beauty and healing
  
• Design Brief 1995

Macmon Architects Jane Kelly - Lead Artist David
Reilly - Project Director
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I can feel the healing environment the moment I
walk in the door. I love the curves the colours
the windows and the garden especially.Lizzie
Farey, Artist  
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..the consultation begins before the
consultation.. you bring your hopes and fears as
you walk towards the meeting
..how that place is, ..and how that person who
meets you is all of it will make an
impact
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See I am a magician. I take ordinary objects and
by combining them I create mystery. If you enter
my colours you enter dream then return to the
world refreshed. Derek Hyatt
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So what are we to do about our hospitals?

• Scientific evidence has now established that the
  physical environment directly affects the
  healing responses of human beings

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I love this building to bits. The first time I
came here I cried. Sandra Smith, Ward Sister
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Psychoneuroimmunolgy

• It used to be easy.
• The mind and body were seen as separate.
• We had head doctors and body doctors.
• Then the flat earth became round.
• Immune cells were found to have receptors for
  neurotransmitters from our brain.
• Our feelings and hopes affect our illness and
  recovery.

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• You get encouragement to be yourself here. I
  cant think of the words, its not like being out
  of your body but there is a sensation of looking
  down on yourself and beginning to see what others
  are seeing.
• Patient
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Patients find the atmosphere soothing and
relaxing - an ideal setting for people who have
suffered physical and emotional stress and
pain... Stephanie, Physiotherapy Dept
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The quality of light in the gym, and the fact
that there is an entire wall of glass looking out
into the garden means that the view is seasonal,
and, dispels the prospective gloom of a working
day ahead!
The department is a pleasant place to be.
Working here reduces my old feelings of my work
being entirely separated from the rest of my
life. Stephanie Wilson, Physiotherapy Dept
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We were determined from the very beginning that
the hospital would more be art, than have art
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I mention from experience, as quite perceptible
in promoting recovery, the being able to see out
of a window the bright colours of flowers..being
able to read in bed by the light of a window the
effects are on the mind and no less so on the
body.
Florence Nightingale
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Views through a window may influence recovery
from surgery
Comparing the impact of the view from the
hospital window on recovery of two matched groups
of post op surgical patients. Indicators included
reduction in analgesics, fewer complaints, lower
blood pressure, fewer adverse observations by
staff and earlier discharge in those in the room
with a view of the landscaped grounds compared to
those with only a brick wall in view.

Ulrich R.Science 1984224420-421.
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We will still need to see, hear, smell, taste
and touch real things in order to confirm their
presence and make sense of our own existence.
within the direct physical, humane experience of
material reality. Jane Hamlyn 1995
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The garden gives you the chance to relax. I get
lost in that garden, sucked into the trees and
the birds in the sky. Before I would see these
things but I didnt connect to them it is
another world I have learned to appreciate it,
and it does something to you, its amazing.
Patient  
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Sometimes patients even sit in the garden in the
Scottish rain
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From a patients letter Thank you so much for
everything you have created at the hospital. I
wonder if you realise how important it is to
those of us who depend upon its environment to
calm us, strengthen us, and then send us out into
the world to cope for another while.
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An in-patients experience
One evening, when I couldnt sleep I stepped out
into the garden and into another world. The
paths, were ribbons of earth captured moonlight.
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