EMOTIONAL RESTORATION COMPLEX: HEALING THROUGH RECREATION

Abstract

Humans have both physiological and psychological needs. For a peaceful and happy life, both needs are to be fulfilled. However, people usually ignore their psychological or emotional needs by not acknowledging and leaving the matters unresolved. When the needs related to a certain emotion are not met, repetitively, it gets suppressed. Suppressed emotions make people get disconnected with themselves, and their surroundings. Human beings have this capacity to detach with emotions as they grow up. When babies are born, are born, they do not have any filters or suppressions. They feel and embrace every emotion and have the liveliest years of their lives, till they come of an age when they start letting negative emotions have a long-term impact on them. At these times, if they learn themselves or through external help, how to regulate those emotions, they will gain more emotional intelligence. Otherwise, they start feeling disconnected and numb towards that emotion. Another factor here is the complexity and subdivision of emotions for people as they grow up. As people grow older, the emotions get more specific and complex, hence easier to get overlooked. Those emotions get suppressed by often getting ignored. The aim of this thesis is to explore in the area of spatial quality’s effects on human psychology. Since the stone age, people have felt emotional connections with the spaces, let it be their home, worship space, 14 entertainment spaces, or cemeteries. The idea is to study, how these spaces have the power to enhance and mold human emotions. How architecture can help a person reconnect with itself by accepting, acknowledging, and celebrating all the emotions. The aim is to create a space which will help people reconnect with their emotions with minimum dependency on external factors, by providing a set of coping mechanisms, focusing on working on the inner self, progressing towards community building.