A Characteristic Study on Healing Space – Featuring Zen-Oriented Ideology

• Main Authors: Ching-Chun Liang, 梁靜純
• Other Authors: Chu-Rong Wey
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/16391709446491481038

碩士 === 中原大學 === 室內設計研究所 === 98 === Abstract In recent years, Taiwan’s consumer market reveals the trend of recovering the original simplicity and returning back to nature. Themes like “LOHAS”, “slow living”, “sense of happiness”, “healing” and “five senses design” frequently appear in various magazines and the media, becoming the hot topic of the society. With the rapid changing of the social environment and modern people's pursuit of technological and economic development, they gradually ignore their internal needs, which leads to various psychological problems resulted from internal disorder, giving rise to “healing-style” products and service for pressure relieving and soul soothing. Healing spaces like thermal springs, SPA and resorts have become the places for modern people under high pressure to relax themselves and relieve the pressure. “Zen style” design has always been used as one of the design methods of the healing space, which has gradually become a form of expression with unique symbolic elements. The research aims at finding out the relationship between the “form” and the “meaning-Zen ideology” of the Zen style design through case study, studying the exchange between modern psychology and oriental thinking under the historical and cultural background through historical/comparative analysis, obtaining a profound understanding of the “healing” in the psychological level through the analytical comparison of the Zen ideology and psychotherapy, and further applying Zen ideology to the design of the healing space. By taking the Zen ideology as the leading principle combined with research results related to psychology and the environmental theories, the researcher studies the relationship between the space and the psychological state of users. According to the research result, the healing space has the following characteristics: “solitary space”, “creation of positive emotional links”, “grand sense of returning back to nature” and “pursuit surpassing individual level”. The space thus serves as the media for the accumulation of psychological meaning and the formation of the sense of belonging. It is the healing space which enables people to get fully relaxed and calm down when being alone. People can be satisfied both in terms of sensuous experience and psychological level, recovering the physical and spiritual pleasure.