Noor Abid_2016-02-19

The final developed design has been adjusted and modified, in order
to provide harmony within the built environment that can be felt in each
zone. This harmony, however, is borrowed from nature and maintained by
the five elements (earth, water, wood, fire, and metal). Harmony of the
interior is expressed through the use of colours, materials, textures, and
light, with respect to the yin/yang concept. Such as, the social zone
expresses earthy and cool materials (stone walls, and concrete flooring),
as well as woody and warm ones (timber flooring and ceiling panels), with
a generous amount of daylight, allowed above the active space, through
transparent skylights where building users are connected with the cool sky
colours and the warm sun lights.
As a result, architecture that is designed to facilitate and enhance
wellness in people is much more than a built environment with healing
products and fitness machines. It becomes a source of therapy itself; it
must speak to users with multiple languages, responding to their bodily
emotions that need the yin/yang effect (tranquil, active) in a constant
manner, in order to feel cured.
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