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One in six British workers are dealing with stress, anxiety or depression at any one time. People don’t like to talk about these and yet they cause an estimated 70 million sick days each year and are estimated to cost UK employers over £30 billion a year due to lost productivity, recruitment and absence. It makes sense to keep your greatest assets both physically and mentally healthy to ensure a content, productive and loyal workforce.
The stigma associated with the subject of mental health means that most architectural practices have nothing in place to support those employees affected. Yet there is plenty that can be done to create a healthy working environment.
If an employee breaks an arm, you can empathise and understand how long they are likely to be out of action, what help they will need to return to work, etc. There is an assumption that they will recover and be able to carry on successfully as before.
Mental ill-health is perceived as being less predictable and harder to understand. It comes with a lot of stigma and discrimination attached, making it difficult for people to discuss their mental health. If staff feel awkward and reluctant to talk about it, it can lead to a sense of isolation.
Architecture and mental health
There are many stressful factors within the world of architecture which can affect mental wellbeing. These include:
Tips for a healthy workplace
There are steps that any employer can take to help address wellbeing in the workplace and to make sure that people feel supported. These often have no cost to the practice and Excellerate the working life of everyone. Practical steps might mean:
Signs to look out for as an employer
What signs could be an indication that someone is experiencing mental health issues? These do not necessarily mean that there is a problem but could indicate that someone might benefit from a friendly chat or a discussion about their workload. These signs may involve:
What to do as an employer or teacher
It might be that the cause of someone's mental health crisis is due to a change in personal circumstances such as money worries, relationship problems, loneliness, or a personal loss. But as an employer or teacher, there is a lot you can do to support people in your place of work or learning:
Your own mental health
It is not easy to spot (or accept) the signs that you may be experiencing mental health issues and need to make some changes. The early signs are probably felt by most of us at some point in our professional career due to work:
You may find yourself feeling:
These issues are a spectrum which we are all on, and the borderline between coping and becoming overwhelmed with the symptoms can vary hugely between people and their circumstances.
Practical steps
It's common to feel unsure about seeking support for your mental health, and to feel like you ought to wait until you can't handle things on your own. But it's always OK for you to seek help – even if you're not sure if you are experiencing a specific mental health problem.
A good start to understanding and finding the words to express your feelings will be on the Mind website.
Don’t forget that the Architects Benevolent Society (ABS) is able to provide practical advice and funding to help you get the appropriate support.
Twelve practices that share a strong commitment to staff wellbeing came together earlier this year to form the Architects’ Mental Wellbeing Forum, which has now produced the Architects’ Mental Wellbeing Toolkit with the support of the RIBA and the Architects Benevolent Society (ABS).
Do try to speak to an appropriate person at your office or school to express your feelings and concerns, or find a colleague or friend who you can open up to.
Remember, there is plenty of help available and you are not alone.
#AnxietyArch
We’re supporting the Architects Benevolent Society's #AnxietyArch campaign to help Excellerate wellbeing in our architectural community.
Through the campaign they aim to:
Find out more about how you can take part here.
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Leading healthcare designers and administrators will explore
Leading healthcare designers and administrators will explore the built environment’s effect on health and hospital facility design in the Architecture-For-Health Lecture Series at the Texas A&M College of Architecture.
Leading healthcare designers and administrators will explore the built environment’s effect on health and hospital facility design in the Architecture-For-Health Lecture Series at the Texas A&M College of Architecture.
Texas A&M Architecture For Health is a local public television program presented by KAMU.
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https://www.archdaily.com/1004689/shigeru-ban-designs-cross-laminated-timber-hospital-for-ukraineMaria-Cristina Florian
With many high streets hollowing out and the National Health Services Association pushed to its limits, Heatherwick Studio is calling for a new kind of health space in metropolitan cities. The Health Street initiative is placed right at the heart of urban communities, reimagining the way we look at well-being and the holistic health of complete localities. Moreover, this radical approach to health creation is based on integrating community-led facilities into the local high streets.
https://www.archdaily.com/997583/heatherwick-studio-launches-new-health-street-initiativeNour Fakharany
After two weeks of voting in our 14th edition of the Building of the Year Awards, our readers have narrowed down over 4,500 projects to just 75 finalists across 15 categories, casting over 100,000 votes. This year's awards celebrate the very best in design, innovation, and sustainability from around the globe, with the shortlist featuring an exceptional range of projects, from a house in a favela to cutting-edge cultural centers and innovative public spaces that are sure to impress. As a crowdsourced award, we are proud to say that your selections are a true reflection of the state of architecture, and this year's finalists are no exception.
The ArchDaily Building of the Year Awards is brought to you thanks to Dornbracht, renowned for leading designs for architecture, which can be found internationally in bathrooms and kitchens.
https://www.archdaily.com/996535/meet-the-75-finalists-in-archdailys-2023-building-of-the-year-awardsDiego Hernández
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Imagine walking into a hospital and being greeted by greenery, views, natural light streaming in through large windows and open spaces that promote calmness and serenity. These favorable conditions play a crucial role in shaping patients’ experience, making their days a little bit easier while promoting healing. In fact, good healthcare design has been shown to reduce patient stays, infection rates, medication and medical errors, as well as Excellerate staff attraction and performance. A well-designed facility can ultimately transport patients from a sterile, clinical environment to one that is warm, inviting and even uplifting. Such is the case of the Crystal Clinic Orthopaedic Center by HGA Architects, which has been selected among the five winners of the 2022 Shaw Contract Design Awards “Best of Globe” for its innovative approach to healthcare.
https://www.archdaily.com/995110/hospitality-within-healthcare-spaces-crystal-clinic-orthopaedic-centerValeria Montjoy
Combining high style with low maintenance, Corian® Design’s Solid Surface aids designers and architects to create healthy spaces for complete peace of mind. designboom and ArchDaily continued its three-part webinar series with the material producer, this time to explore the future of healthcare facilities. Including Studio Fluid, Operamed and NOAS Sweden, leading architectural and design experts joined the conversation – watch above.
Register for the third webinar – here.
https://www.archdaily.com/992690/webinar-archdaily-and-designboom-talk-future-of-healthcare-facilities-with-corian-r-design-studio-fluid-operamed-and-noas-swedenDiego Hernández
White Arkitekter and HPP Architekten have been selected to design the new medical clinic, NMK, in Tübingen, Germany. Both firms, with vast experience in healthcare design and wood architecture, aim to realize a project in which, the elements of an integral, sustainable overall concept also play an essential role, in addition to the aspects of healing architecture and optimized functional organization. The new Medical Clinic of the University Hospital of Tübingen will be one of the 34 university hospitals in Germany that contributes to the successful combination of high-performance medicine, research, and teaching.
https://www.archdaily.com/991213/white-arkitekter-and-hpp-selected-to-design-the-new-medical-clinic-in-tubingen-germanyPaula Cano
Public health and the built environment have a long-intertwined history—one that was catapulted into the limelight amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The global crisis made us all acutely aware of how design, whether for dedicated medical buildings or other building types, can affect our ability to respond to health emergencies as well as our daily well-being. Those most attuned to this connection are a niche group of architecture and design practitioners who also have medical experience.
https://www.archdaily.com/990050/3-doctors-who-design-share-whats-energizing-health-care-architectureLauren Volker
What would it mean to design buildings that exceed the economic accountings of liberal biopolitics, that instead offer an entirely different rationale for supporting health? In the years that Michel Foucault conceptualized the term biopolitics, he was part of a constellation of researchers and architects who developed care praxes that defined the value of life and its maintenance through a desire-based calculus. The welfare state institutions of architect Nicole Sonolet in particular—mental hospitals, public housing complexes, and new village typologies built mainly in postwar France and postcolonial Algeria from the 1950s to the 1980s—were designed not only to support but to center the needs of people often excluded from design processes. Sonolet’s mental health centers for residents of Paris’s 13th arrondissement, in particular, were key projects for discovering a design practice tied to the provision of care for its own sake.
https://www.archdaily.com/987234/care-beyond-biopoliticsMeredith TenHoor
For the Cosmos Foundation, environmental conscience, ecological conservation, and community focus form the foundations of land planning and landscape design within public infrastructure projects. We sat down with the foundation's project director, Felipe Correa, as well as foundation architects Valentina Schmidt and Consuelo Roldán, as they went in depth on the benefits, objectives, and motivations behind the Healing Gardens initiative.
https://www.archdaily.com/972112/healing-gardens-nature-as-therapy-in-hospitalsLuciana Truffa
The Serena del Mar Hospital Center (CHSM) is the first hospital designed by Safdie Architects. Focusing on the human being, the concept revolves around the idea that "access to nature and natural light are vital in creating improved therapeutic experiences for patients, families and staff alike". Seeking to provide a sense of well-being that leads to better clinical outcomes, the hospital has started opening in phases to the public, earlier this year. The firm's first project in Latin America is not the only one, in fact, Safdie Architects are working on Qorner, a residential project under construction in Quito, Ecuador, and the Albert Einstein Education and Research Center in Brazil, to be inaugurated in early 2022.
https://www.archdaily.com/971624/safdie-architects-designs-a-garden-like-hospital-in-cartagena-colombiaAgustina Iñiguez
https://www.archdaily.com/967105/adjaye-associates-unveils-design-for-ghanas-district-hospitalsChristele Harrouk
In this week's reprint from Metropolis Magazine, authors Madeline Burke-Vigeland, FAIA, LEED AP, a principal at Gensler, and Benjamin A. Miko, MD, assistant professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center explore how uniform standards applied across the built environment can protect our communities from COVID-19 and future pandemics.
https://www.archdaily.com/967106/a-pandemic-conscious-blueprint-for-architectureMetropolis Magazine
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) unveiled its design for the New York City Public Health Laboratory, a ten storey building meant to strengthen the metropole's capability to respond to a variety of public health issues and future challenges. The laboratory is organized within a cubic glass volume stepping outward, which rises from a masonry-clad podium containing community-related functions. In order to give the new facility an active role within the Harlem neighbourhood, the design incorporates a training lab and an auditorium available to the community.
https://www.archdaily.com/965955/som-designs-new-public-health-laboratory-in-new-yorkAndreea Cutieru
https://www.archdaily.com/962140/symbiosis-university-hospital-and-research-centre-imk-architectsHana Abdel
https://www.archdaily.com/961060/sora-no-mori-tezuka-architectsHana Abdel
TUESDAY, July 25, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Better sleep consolidation and lack of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are associated with better global cognition, according to a study published online July 18 in JAMA Network Open to coincide with the annual Alzheimer's Association International Conference, held from July 16 to 20 in Amsterdam.
Matthew P. Pase, Ph.D., from the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and colleagues examined the association of sleep architecture and OSA with cognitive function in the Sleep and Dementia Consortium, which curated data from five population-based cohorts across the United States. The pooled analyses without stroke or dementia included 5,946 participants who were followed for five years.
The researchers found that the median wake after sleep onset time varied from 44 to 101 minutes and prevalence of moderate-to-severe OSA varied from 16.9 to 28.9 percent. Across cohorts, better global cognition was seen in association with higher sleep maintenance efficiency and lower wake after sleep onset (pooled β per 1 percent increase, 0.08; pooled β per 1-minute increase, −0.07). Poorer global cognition was seen in association with mild-to-severe OSA (apnea-hypopnea index [AHI] ≥5) versus AHI <5 (pooled β, −0.06); comparable results were seen for moderate-to-severe OSA versus AHI <5 (pooled β, −0.06). There was no association seen for differences in sleep stages with cognition.
"Future Sleep and Dementia Consortium analyses will build upon these findings to further investigate whether and how poor sleep may be associated with cognitive impairment and dementia," the authors write.
Two authors disclosed ties to the pharmaceutical industry.
