Art Therapy Centre through Interior Design: For Children who Experience Behavioural and Social Issues

The advanced developments and technology of the world today have caused a continuous evolution of the built environment. However, this development should not imply the denial, rejection, or annihilation of the natural environment, but rather a seamless combination of the both. Studies have demonstrated the benefits of the WELL Building Standard, which is used to evaluate, certify, and assess built environment factors that affect occupants' health and well-being in an interior space. The benefits that the WELL Building Standard can have when implemented in an art therapy facility that directly relates to children with behavioural and social disorders, hence fostering a sustainable approach to wellbeing, are not sufficiently explored in the research. Fundamental to a child's mental health is their capacity to communicate these feelings in healthy ways, which may require for treatments that meet the child where they are typically in non-communicative ways. These therapies, which mostly rely on the arts for communication, include arts therapies, which have been used to surpass the necessity for language ability (Moula et al., 2020). This study explores the importance of an art therapy centre and how art therapy can help children who have behavioural and social issues. In addition to increasing children's behavioural and psychological troubles, the COVID-19 pandemic has also made children feel more isolated in their surroundings, which has led to an increase in mental health issues. Despite the fact that many children struggle with behavioural and social problems, there are ways to help a child change their behaviours or manage their behaviour better overall by using the WELL Building Standard features in interior spaces. In order to derive significant meaning and conclusions from the research, a literature review and primary data gathered through interviews are examined and cross-referenced. Important design choices for a proposed art therapy centre are investigated using diagrammatic forms and conceptual models in this study's findings.