Indische Spirituality in Dutch Architecture: The Influence of Spirituality from the Dutch East Indies on Dutch Architecture between 1890 and 1920

This thesis explores the influence of spirituality from the Dutch East Indies on Dutch architecture from 1890 to 1920. It investigates the interplay between Eastern spirituality, particularly through theosophy, and architectural theory, focusing on key figures like K.P.C. De Bazel and J.L.M. Lauweriks. Through an analysis of influences from the...

Circular Retreat: House of Modern Rituals: Rethinking the St. Dominicus church

This research explores how the St. Dominicus church in Utrecht can be revitalised with the help of contemporary spiritual values. As a result of secularisation and the shift from religion to spirituality, there is a noticeable increase in vacant church buildings. In this research, a design strategy is proposed that revises the original function...

A new perspective on the architecture of psychiatric healing

Some researchers claim that the modern landscape of psychiatric treatment is mechanized to approach healing of the patients through the form the chemical treatment (Rhi, 2001). This method does not prove to be efficient for every patient, leaving them in a burdening psychological state. Elements such as holistic practices...

Finding meaning in the profane: How libraries can evoke spiritual experiences

Religion is in decline and spirituality starts to take on a more prominent role instead. Although there are abundant religious spaces, this shift did not cause a development in architecture yet. Libraries have similar qualities to religious spaces, like the sense of community and the feeling of retreat, so it is interesting to research how this...

Salvation to go: the development of spiritual spaces within infrastructures of traveling

On a journey, most functions of daily life have to be paused or improvised. A few<br/>items used for the most essential of all the various activities that are normally taking place in one’s home environment are condensed in the traveller’s luggage. These items are the only available material for improvisation in addition to the spatial...

Project Vital Presents Spiritus: Designing a Data Supported Breath Practice for a TU Delft Student's Journey Towards Inner Peace

Spiritual wellbeing is an important part of human wellbeing. As the field of positive design aims to design for human well-being, how may we design for spiritual well-being? As we address this question in a secular society, an opportunity is presented by a rise in practices that were not explored by traditional western religion but are indeed...

Mundanity and Spirituality

Mundanity and spirituality are two important key words in bricolage. However, with the development of the times, mudnanity and spirituality have taken on a new dimension. For mundanity, people's right to creative freedom in their everyday lives has been greatly restricted. In the case of spirituality, the complexities of the present age are also...

Palliative terminal care virtual training for inexperienced nurses on emotional and spiritual capability

Over recent decades, the quality of death and dying has received much attention in society. Many patients with terminal cancers or admitted to intensive care/acute units are in need of care for the end of their life (Susan, 2015). With this need rising up, palliative care service is gradually developed mainly as the setting of hospice or home...

La Corrente: How can design support faith of Catholic LGBT+ members in Italy?

This project aims to design an opportunity for helping Catholic LGBT+ members to merge their faith with their sexuality harmoniously. To tackle this complex issue, a detailed research phase was necessary. The desk research analyzed the current situation of Catholic LGBT+ members in Italy. In particular, the research focused on the current...

Aging in Place，Non-zero Sum Game: Improves life quality and living conditions for aged people who “Aging in Place”, through the renewal and reconstruction of public spaces system in diverse scales

The density of elderly population in Central City of Beijing is relatively high compare to that in peri urban area, which resulting in the urban disease, scarcity and low quality of public spaces in the city center. However, in Beijing, the main demands of elderly people have incline to the social needs and social participation, instead of...

Manutencao Militar Lisbon: Disclosing the military city.

Graduation project within the studio of Heritage &amp; Architecture. Dealing with existing (post WWII) industrial heritage. Conversion of an old military complex into a spiritual center.

Accommodation of spiritual spatial experience in a modern urban fabric

The entirety of built environment exists in a state of flux and adaptation under the effect of a mutual relation between society and its spatial outcomes. Since human beings’ existence cannot be separated from space and its man-made forms, built environment can alter people through embedded biases. And these biases are mostly manifested by...