Uma arquitetura em prol da vida: a participação popular na psicologia do espaço de saúde para o tratamento da depressão

Abstract

Generally, architecture is associated with urban problems of housing shortage, precarious settlements, slumming, which strengthens the link between social architecture and the production of social housing, however, it can be extended to various issues, such as public health. One of the public health issues currently facing is depression, which affects 11.5 million Brazilians, according to WHO 2017, despite the distribution of Psychosocial Care Centers (CAPS) throughout the country and other equipment with services. of mental health. Given the capacity of a space to intervene psychologically in man, positively attenuated with the integration of identity and comfort with physical aspects, enhanced by popular participation, seeks to diagnose architectural links with treatment of mental disorders and, based on the alliance between architects, Health professionals, patients and families, raise participatory methods for the architectural production of mental health equipment.