ARCHITECTURE AS THERAPY
Flowing forms, seamless floor, light, air, transparency.
This architecture opens heart and soul, allows feeling to float and brings a smile to the face. For the „Medicine of the Future“ at Lanserhof, the architect Dr. Regina Dahmen-Ingenhoven from Dusseldor designed a futuristic medical, therapy and beauty centre in 1,500 square meters of space, which surprises and fascinates with its intelligence, originality and consistency.
The people who come here mostly have energy-stealing professions, are stressed and seek a place for relaxation. „The architecture must receive the people with open arms,“ says Dahmen-Ingenhoven.
The design is therefore gentle, with rounded corners, soft colours, forms and materials. In this intelligent world of relaxation and energy-charging, the architecture should free the people from their pressures of daily life. It lifts them in a utopia and creates space for spiritual freedom, arousing curiosity about the future and development.
At the same time, people in need of therapy require safety, peace and quiet, and a strengthening emotional „cocoon“, the „third skin“. At Lanserhof this role is taken on by function, ideally solved in the concept. ‚The rooms follow the laws of authenticity and provide orientation and security in their clarity. They neither represent nor manipulate. Their harmony also balances the inner spiritual space and thereby enables relaxation and reflection.
Particularly significance is granted to light in this world of well-being and energy. Light never flows directly, is never glaring or disturbing. „Healing Light“ is Dahmen-Ingenhoven‘s name for this sophisticated light concept of niches with an almost sacred ambience. A carefully designed communication room is the stage for „coincidental“ encounters with guests. And a fifty-meter-long, transparent „Northern Chain“ integrates nature as a preferred reality.