Look at the original uses of the spaces and subvert or extend these:
- Open up the wing used originally for surgery and medication as an indoor swimming pool - eg. take off the roof.
- Add a waterfall over the rooms which were originally used as continuous water therapy (continuously running baths)
- Make the wings used for seclusion into a library - old idea of seclusion was to be left alone with your own thoughts, but in a library you're alone with several thousand other's thoughts (on paper)
- Kitchen - remains as is but perhaps becomes more 'alchemy' like?
- Wards, sleep, treatment spaces - ?
- Dayrooms - areas for socialising with family/friends
- Admin areas
Different treatments for
- the outside of the 'blanket of dwellings' at the back, the area where the path is - natural textures, details, interesting bits compared with the other side which will be smooth and appear to disappear into the sky when viewing from the driveway.
- the dwellings themselves, depending on patient etiology:
- those with manic/anxious tendencies will be in a calming environment with minimal stimulus. They may be able to hear the water in the pool or waterfall, birds, no public noise or chatter
- those who tend to be depressed will be in the opposite end where they may be able to hear chatter of other people, deliveries, normal sounds of everyday life
Present the building with paths of various people/residents/public winding through and associated various points on these paths with narratives, descriptive texts on what the person is doing there, what they're hearing and feeling.
The path becomes the central concept
- find other precedents eg. like the High Line.
- add in more haptic elements eg. water (waterfall, pool), fire (outdoor fireplaces, pits, gathering around these), air (up high off the ground, swing bridge)
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