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Art and Music Therapy Center by Nattawoot Phimphakan

Thesis Project 2020 SoA+D School of Architecture and Design, Thailand

The aims of this thesis are to study how art and performing art are used as a traumatic process, and how could architecture help improve these processes. Office workers have been suffering from stress and anxiety for centuries, especially those who work in a big city like Bangkok.

The art and music therapy intervention and architecture should be integrated, providing a space for simply reduce stress and anxiety for office workers, and specifically healing depressive disorder patients. The architecture aims to provide a place for rehabilitation, different type of expressive art therapy spaces, and programs alongside music therapy programs. An architecture should support three-stage of privacy as depressive disorder treatment space should be the most private space, followed by rehabilitation space for simply reduce stress and public activities of art and music for people in the area.