Synergenial Centre.

MArch. 2 Final Project  
Concept: Transfiguring Roots
Project Type: Architectural & Landscape Design
Location: Halifax, UK
Year: 2018
Building Type: Wellness, Wellbeing & Mindfullness

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Can architecture and landscape be a means of improving well-being, wellness and mindfulness within individuals, groups and communities? Can such care which is considered ‘institutional’ be redefined and follow principle methods of healing, strengthening and well-being that were used hundreds of years ago? Can natural and native approaches to human well-being be infused into the architecture of today?

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Oriented around wellbeing, wellness and mindfulness, this centre applies more natural and holistic approaches to healing. Designed to heal with the journey, the experience, the integration and the interaction. It aims to create synergy between the medical institutions, the community, gyms, and nature in order to create a place that breaks the norm by using more naturalised approaches to healing. It is design to allow individuals, groups, and communities to reach a state of wellbeing, wellness and mindfulness, emotionally, physically, mentally, psychologically, spiritually and even religiously - creating the geniality. Thus the ‘Synergenial Centre’.

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The line between inside and outside is blurred by integrating the landscape and architecture together, with one of the main methods of healing being exposure to nature. It imbues within, hidden historical gems of Halifax such as the Hebble Brook Canal and the Historical Niches, which become experiential nodes, that you come upon during your journey in and around the centre. The views and vistas, like the historical features, are aspects that are both intimate with the centre and the town depending on where you meander.

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The Synergenial centre has a specific relationship that changes and appeals differently as you go further in and to the back. The connection between the functions and the space becomes more or less intimate as you travel through from one side to the other. 

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The approach you take intrinsically and extrinsically and those spaces in between provide a variety of experiences, both with the other occupiers, nature and with the activities simultaneously.