Ragnhild Andreassen

Complex Projects

Student: Ragnhild Andreassen

Title: Rehabilitation of the Future

Studio: MSc2 Building Visions 23/24

Abstract

How can architecture motivate rehabilitation patients in their recovery?

This project is speculating how the rehabilitation process in the future could look like using technological advances that have yet to be made. As a part of healthcare, technology has the ability to transform tedious tasks that are both physically heavy for the staff and mentally draining for the patients, to something that the patients look forward to and the staff can operate from afar. It’s crucial for rehabilitation to be motivational for it to be successful, which sadly is not always the case in most of today’s rehabilitation centers. The Rehabilitation pods makes the patients have a sense of agency by offering three different types of rehabilitation. The speculative, future technology of augmented and virtual reality transform the pod into an environment the patient is comfortable with and can enjoy while performing the rehabilitation. At the center of the rehabilitation pods, there is a common area for rehabilitation to gather and talk about common experiences, as well as the option of group therapy. In between the pods there are areas for more privacy if the patient needs a calm and safe environment after or before rehabilitation. The pods in themselves serves as freestanding sculptures to deter from fear many has of doctors and hospitals, while nature is present both in the center of the common area, and surrounding the rehabilitation area as a whole.