DESIGN STATEMENT
VISION:
This multi-sensory garden experience will help with students who struggle with mental health issues. Mental health illnesses have become extremely prevalent among students and can cause a range of issues. To help improve this I have designed a space for students to feel safe, comfortable, and included in that is located on the Griffith Gold Coast Campus. This garden contains a therapeutic range of herbs, plants and flowers which have been proven to help with mental health illness. This garden to be used as a place to make social connections within the campus, an alternative space to study and relax, and to ultimately feel at peace within nature. There are solo and group areas to sit and benches to work on or eat at. Each of the elements have been carefully curated and all have a strong intention to help students with mental health illness. The environment is known to be a natural healer for humans, connecting ourselves to it enhances our overall mood and therefore generating calmness, happiness, joy, creativity and can facilitate concentration.
OUTCOME:
The space is enclosed with a full glass structure held together with steel framework; this supports all the lighting throughout the space. Holding both wall lights and down lights, as well as some hanging plants which add to the multi-sensory element through the visual stimulation. Throughout this space the Australian standards for accessibility has been heavily considered. The main elements that have been considered are, spatial widths of 815mm or more throughout the whole space for wheelchair uses, automatic opening doors, heights of basins and sinks, and heights of tables and chairs. Over all, each of these elements contribute to making this space a connection within nature, a space to feel calm, comfortable, included, and at peace with nature.
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