Health and well-being: the right light in health centers

The pandemic has increased awareness of the importance of living environments, even those in which we are forced to stay out of need.

Feeling at home and at ease even in a hospital, thinking and designing places that have man, his needs and well-being at the center.

This need is more evident today due to a virus that forces one to visit hospitals and clinics, as patients and relatives in sight, in unpleasant situations. We realize how often these places are not very welcoming, functional perhaps, but not empathetic.

“Health and well-being start with good (and beautiful) architecture”.
– Matteo Thun, architect and designer

Along with architecture, light plays a fundamental role in the design of spaces, even in hospital-type spaces, which should be conceived more considering the hospitality aspect, on the model of hotels.

The difference between an aseptic and unwelcoming place and a comfortable one lies in the design concept and in the centrality that is given in this phase to the human being and his psychophysical well-being.

The guests of the health centers are usually forced to undergo it, they have no way of controlling it or directing it. The light usually comes from above, always with the same intensity and the same color.

It would be enough to focus on people, the sick, visiting relatives as well as healthcare workers, to understand right from the project that a standard lighting environment has nothing to do with well-being.

The technology is there, the spaces can be rethought by looking more at the quality of light than at the quantity and, thinking of comfort and well-being, the first thought can only go to designing the right light.