BEAUTY MEMORY ENTROPY

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

 

Cognitive approaches to architectural conception : an aid tool for therapy of people with depression

Soundouss-Ismahane Talantikite,  University of Constantine Algeria

 

ABSTRACT

For years, the old city of Annaba in Algeria is denounced for its massive and chronic overcrowding. It deteriorates and decays day by day, houses are collapsing one after the other, unhealthiness and insecurity prevail and shape the daily lives of their citizens. More than 25% of patients in the psychiatric hospital Abubaker Er-Razi are from the old town of Annaba, they suffer from health problems and feel a lack of daily well-being. Quality of life is affected. Consequently, it logically follows from this over-occupied, and promiscuity that follows, this part of the city is experiencing a climate of high tension particularly conducive to the development of violence between people and generates an increase in the schizophrenia depression and behavioral problems (psychological problems), which undoubtedly involved the anxiety atmosphere described by those who desired contact their testimony. Today the world is experiencing a radical change in the lifestyle of people through NICT (New Information And Communication Technologies) have become present in their daily practices of space. We are facing an alarming situation, more and more people are lost in this growing ambiguity, the space / time relationship is accelerating, distances are shrinking, the pressure on individuals’ increases, which push them to overwork override and disruption. More and more people are moving towards pharmaceutical medicine, is it the right answer? This article assumes two facts degradation of the old city of Annaba and the adverse effects on its population and their treatment in the psychiatric hospital. This fact makes us take in charge the care of their patients and improving the reception, the services, monitoring and medical management of individuals, taking into account the psychological needs and the suffering people bark. What can we say about interactive architecture evolving in real time, able to spontaneously change the physical properties of space, according to the environment, to serve as a therapy for depressed people in public psychiatric hospitals?