Köknar, Sait AliPöğün-Zander, YükselFrancesca SbrizzaiBerlin International University of Applied Sciences2024-01-152025-12-022025-12-022023https://repository.berlin-international.de/handle/123456789/1056AUTHOR-SUPPLIED ABSTRACT: Abstract This thesis explores the impact of the built environment on the healing process of patients in drug rehabilitation centers. Specifically, it investigates the concept of confinement and examines how certain interior design strategies can alleviate this feeling, ultimately benefiting the patients. The feeling of confinement, therefore isolation, experienced by individuals does not, however, begin in rehabilitation centers. In fact, this thesis starts by examining the confinement faced by individuals during their early encounters with drug addiction (an unhealthy coping mechanism that leads to self-isolation), aggravated by the weight of the stigma that progressively alienates them. Subsequently, the factors contributing to confinement within rehabilitation centers are explored, followed by an analysis of interior design strategies encompassing elements of nature, shapes, and spatial arrangement. These strategies aim to enhance sociability and ultimately alleviate the feeling of confinement. To accomplish this, three case studies were examined to identify and compare these strategies. Afterwards, an interior design project was developed to apply the findings and insights derived from the research and analysis conducted. The ultimate outcome of this thesis is that there are effective design strategies that can be implemented in rehabilitation centers to alleviate the feeling of confinement among patients. These strategies play a crucial role in supporting their recovery process and facilitating their successful reintegration into society. Keywords: confinement, isolation, estrangement, rehabilitation center, drug addiction, stigma, sociability, healing process, freedomMACHINE-GENERATED CONTENTS NOTE: Table of Contents introduction........................................................................................................ 9 1.1 Introduction and Problem Statement .............................................................. 11 1.2 Aims and Research Question ............................................................................ 14 1.3 Methodology .................................................................................................... 15 2. First Level of Confinement: Drug Addiction as a Mental Prison ....................... 17 2.1 Isolation as a Choice: Why Drugs Are Used as a Means of Alienation ................. 21 2.2 Isolation as an Outcome: How Drug Abuse Affects Social And Psychological Confinement ............................................................................. 23 2.3 Isolation as an Imposition: How Society Tends to Stigmatize Substance Use Disorder .................................................................................... 26 3. Second Level of Confinement: Rehabilitation Centers as a Physical Restriction ....... 29 3.1 Different Phases of Treatment Mean Different Levels of Freedom .............. 33 3.2 the Security Measurements ............................................................................ 35 3.3 Socializing Inside the Rehab ............................................................................ 40 3.4 the Interaction With the Local Community .................................................... 46 4. Design Strategies to Reduce the Feeling of Confinement .......................... 49 4.1 Emotions, Social Interactions, and the Built Environment .................... 53 4.2 Nature ..................................................................................................... 55 4.3 Shapes ..................................................................................................... 63 4.4 Spatial Arrangement ............................................................................... 68 5. Case Studies ................................................................................................. 75 5.1 Groot Klimmendaal ............................................................................... 79 5.2 Sister Margaret Smith.............................................................................. 90 5.3 Proyecto Hombre ................................................................................... 98 5.4 Analysis and Outcome ............................................................................ 105 6. Project of an Aftercare Rehab....................................................................... 109 6.1 Introduction and Location ....................................................................... 111 6.2 Concept ................................................................................................... 114 6.3 Private and Public Area .............................................................................. 114 6.4 Wayfinding and Sense of Control ............................................................. 118 6.5 Detail of the Corridor and Gardening Room ............................................ 120 7. Conclusion ................................................................................................... 123 bibliography ................................................................................................. 130 list of Figures .............................................................................................. 135engDrug AddictionEstrangementHealing ProcessIsolationRehabilitation CenterSociabilityStigmaConfinementThesis