SusannaCots wins the German Design Award with the Clínica Sant Josep interior architecture project

The award recognises the emotional interior design that she applies in healthcare spaces

Interior architect SusannaCots has won the prestigious German Design Awards, conferred by the German Design Council, for her Clínica Sant Josep interior design project. The clinic is the second-oldest healthcare centre in Manresa and is owned by the Althaia Foundation.

The winners were announced in Frankfurt last Friday and the Catalan interior designer's project was selected from among more than 1,500 candidates.

Emotional interior design applied to healthcare spaces

Susanna Cots thus consolidates her track record in the design of healthcare spaces on the basis of emotional development. “Science shows that we human beings are likely to model our mood depending on the objects that surround us. Our projects aim to literally transform what we feel in a healthcare space by articulating light, nature and design for comfort”, she explains.

After many years studying the impact of interior design on the emotions, in 2017 Susanna Cots was finally able to associate science, design and the emotions at the XX National Congress of Psychiatry, where she proposed the study of design on the basis of scientific research to understand how it affects the senses.

“The emotions are running high when we enter a healthcare clinic. Our state of mind passes through several phases: worry, tiredness, joy and pain, and the space must provide the sense of confidence and trust to make us feel that we are in the right place”, Susanna Cots says. “This can be achieved through the invisible design components, one of the most important of which is light but which also include the distribution and the colour white”.

The emotional power of white

Lighting is one of the “invisible elements” that the Catalan designer cultivates. To her, it is the “great emotional modulator” and the key element in healthcare spaces.

She maintains that “light has the power to attenuate space and reduce feelings of uncertainty and, at the same time, forges a connection of mutual understanding between professionals or patients”.

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