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MDes Interior Design School of Design

Jinwei Chen

In the self-discovery area, there would be a giant waterfall coming down from the top of roof. The loud sound produced by the giant waterfall could act as the sound mask for people so that people could let out their own shouting, crying and sighing without caring about others. This part is to let people focus on the musicality of their own voice, find themselves and discover themselves.

I’m an interior designer with an undergraduate in industrial design, partly focusing on product design and exhibition design. My keen interest is in creating a therapeutic experience for people. My work this year has been focused on combining research-driven concepts with water sounds to create a healing space for people to release their death anxiety. I spent most of my time exploring how to create a guided-therapeutic experience for people combined with musical therapy and let people could explore the space according to sounds. My project will mainly revolve around creating a healing space for people who can do some psychotherapy in the area.

Contact
chenjinwei1309@gmail.com
j.chen6@student.gsa.ac.uk
@jinwei3109
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Best Farewell
In the self-discovery area, there would be a giant waterfall coming down from the top of roof. The loud sound produced by the giant waterfall could act as the sound mask for people so that people could let out their own shouting, crying and sighing without caring about others. This part is to let people focus on the musicality of their own voice, find themselves and discover themselves.

Best Farewell

I do some research on musical therapy theory and case studies on healing space. I propose some questions about how to create a healing journey. Could a guided-therapeutic experience bring healing experience to people? How do begin a healing journey for people? How do I present the characteristics of sound/music in the space? What type of healing activities can people do in the area? My project focuses on how to create a healing journey for people. People could explore the space according to sounds and experience four stages in the process: self-reflected, self-exploration, self-expression, and self-discovery. These four stages also represent four different musical therapy, respectively. People could explore four stages according to sounds and complete their healing process.

Entrance

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In the self-reflected area, people could hear some water droplets and listen to some quiet music to do some meditation

Self-reflected

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People can hear some small streams run down from the glass and follow the sound to come to the rest area.

Small corridor on the ground floor

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In the rest area, people will gradually hear the sounds from the music pool and they could follow the sound to come to the music pool to explore the space.

Rest area

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In the music pool, people could step on the circular music steps to explore the space, it is also the area that connect self-exploration area and self-expression area. There are three water flows which produce different sounds. People could follow the sound to explore the space.

Music Pool with music stone steps

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In the self-exploration room, people can play instruments on their own. They could try different music instruments, and have a connection with the instruments.

Self-exploration area

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In the self-expression area, this part is for group therapy. People could play the instruments together and express themselves using music as means

Self-expression area

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In the self-discovery area, there would be a giant waterfall coming down from the top of roof. The loud sound produced by the giant waterfall could act as the sound mask for people so that people could let out their own shouting, crying and sighing without caring about others. This part is to let people focus on the musicality of their own voice, find themselves and discover themselves.

Self-discovery area

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Platform on the first floor

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When people come into the entrance, firstly they will come into a long corridor and then come to the self-reflected area. Then they will follow the sound point 1 of water droplets to explore the whole underground floor. Then, they will they will gradually follow the sound point 2 to go upstairs to the entrance of the ground floor. They could follow the sound point 3 and sound point 4 to come into the waiting area. In the rest area, they could hear sound point 5 and sound point 6, when they follow these two sound point, they could explore the ground floor.In the ground floor, there are mainly three areas. Near the sound point 5 is self-exploration room. Near the sound point 6 is self-expression room. The music pool with different circular steps connect the sound point 5 and sound point 6. After that, people could follow sound point 7 to go up to the first floor and sound point 8. In the sound point 8, it is a self-discovery area. After that, people could follow the sound point 9 and sound point 10 to come to the platform on the first floor. In the end, they will hear the sound point 3 and sound point 4, this is the end of the healing journey and when people hear these two sound points, this will help them look back on their whole journey in the space

Follow the sound

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Follow the sound

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