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The Ideal Mental Hospital Designed Using LSD

by JacobSloan on July 24, 2013 in News

Via Motherboard, Brian Anderson explains how

groundbreaking architect Kiyoshi Izumi employed LSD

trips in order to create a more humane psyche ward:

Kiyoshi Izumi was part of a small, federally-

granted team of visionaries tasked with

developing a province-wide psychiatric hospital

overhaul that addressed the affects that clinical

environments had on patients. The trick? Get

inside the heads of the mentally ill.

The success of the Saskatchewan Plan hinged

on mimicking the psychomimetic experience.

Hed have to conjure up not only hallucinations but also delusions and perceptual distortions

distinct to psychoses. Hed have to eat acid.

It was a bold move. The insights he gleaned from levelling with patients and their surroundings, if

were to take his word for it, found Izumi envisioning whats gone on to be called the ideal mental

hospital, the first of which was raised in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, in 1965.

To the untrained eye, Izumis final building likely appeared decidedly non psychedelic. But look

closer and it becomes clear just how instrumental Izumis psychomimetic experiences proved in

shaping the way he thought about the sort of feng shui of socio-psycho interaction.

It was not a mirrored warp. A cool, flat palette lightly colored the rooms and hallways. It was not

a wormholerather than gaping closets there were large, mobile cabinets, each with an easily

discernible back and front side. Nor was it a cagethis was a place of many windows, all low and

unbarred. The beds sat low to the floor in individual rooms, each furnished so as to define the floor

as close gound, not a distant pit. It was not a theatrical setting. Privacy was paramount. There were

social spaces, sure, but the doorways and thresholds to those areas were specially designed to beat

back the stock-still horror of feeling on stage.

It restored time. Clocks and calendars were plentiful, though never positioned as to appear instable,

floating, or in defiance of gravity. And it was not synesthetic. Izumi took pains to dampen
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lifobryan

I'm profoundly intrigued with the idea of mental or psychic space made manifest in architecture.

Particularly architecture associated with altered states of consciousness or mysticism Teresa of

Avila's "Interior Castle" & Thomas Kirkbride's theories of asylum-keeping come to mind.

I spend a lot of time exploring abandoned asylums, and in fact, some years ago, Goethe's idea

that "architecture is frozen music" led me to create a short 16mm experimental film in one such

place. The project explored the rhythms implicit in the architecture as well as its incremental

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mental hospital, Mental Il lness, Psychedelics

disorienting architectural minutia that for some patients kick up waves of mish-mashed senses.

Heat, light, and sound sources were designed to avoid creating confusion, Izumi continued in

LSD and Architectural Design, as many of these sources became indistinguishable to a patient who

is experiencing perceptual changes and distortions. To wit: The combined [light fixture] fittings

that are used quite commonly in commercial buildings were not used in the psychiatric hospital. In

selecting illumination type and distribution, we tried to avoid creating silhouettes of faces and

bodies.

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decay, and used animation techniques in physical space. The reason for using animation

techniques was to experience the space outside of "real time" - altering perception of time &

motion, with odd fixations on details. I have to say it was one of the most mystical experiences

I've ever had making a film project many odd synchonicities emerged from it, and I'm

convinced that had to do with a psychic (however you define that) relationship with the place,

and a fusion of mental & physical space.

Sorry for the shameless plug - but if anyone feels like checking out the short film, you can see it

here: http://outthereradio.net/met-s...

The article on Kiyoshi Izumi was fascinating - thank you so much for posting it, and I'm excited

to research his ideas further.

Jin The Ninja

i think it is interesting, looking at his original blueprint, that it was so closely linked to MCM and

'organic' modernism- which is very scarce in canada as a whole (outside of vancouver and lower

mainland BC)- we have quite a lot of brutalism, art deco and victorian architecture, but very

much a scarcity in approachable, humanist modern design of the post-war era.

echar

This recalls Marie Balter. A former misdiagnosed 15 year patient at Danvers State Hospital. Who

then returned to the same hospital, before it's closing, as administration.

http://vimeo.com/35647957#

Calypso_1

There is a reason I decided to take a tour of duty on the other side of the glass.

Chaorder Gradient

Any tips for such an endeavor? :-P

Calypso_1

An intrepid sense of wonder that you are fortunate enough to

have arrived intact through the mysteries of mind and sorrows of psyche

that will claim many you seek to aid and mend....and that there will be

others that do survive and heal.

Chaorder Gradient

Thanks. Really.
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