CONCEPT 

Aura is the proposed solution for a wellness center with a focus on carefully designed spaces to support post-secondary students looking to alleviate burnout. Throughout the space, students will experience a holistic approach to wellness and mental health services, creating a suspension of time, and submerging users into a healing environment. Through the exploration of human connection to enveloping spaces, a sense of place is promoted through nature-inspired elements that provide restorative moments throughout the built environment. Holistic healing opportunities are provided through thoughtful spatial layout and intuitive way finding navigation tools to experience the space as suited to their needs. The interior environment is curated to provide a blend of public and private wellness experiences. The center’s color palette has been curated to be soft, warm, and bright considering color theory and psychology to create a safe, inviting, and inspiring atmosphere ideal for healing and mental recovery. This is complemented by the use of continuous curvilinear forms, textures, and layered lighting taping into the user’s 5 senses creating an enhanced multi-sensory experience to aid in healing the individual as a whole, in mind body, and soul through this restorative environment. Aura aims to offer a space for relief and refuge helping to improve their well being and feel confident in their personal and academic lives through the integration of community and self-exploration. Users should leave feeling like their aura is glowing.

ABOUT THE PROJECT 

This project focuses on the development and implementation of an interior design proposal that reflects their thesis research and programming completed in Advanced Studio 1 and Research and Programming courses (fall semester). This project requires the utilization and expansion upon the approved thesis capstone document from Advanced Studio 1. Emphasis will be placed on appropriateness, supportive research, critical analysis, and incorporation of sustainable practices as well as the innovation, functionality, creativity, and communicative techniques of the thesis capstone design solution