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The process of building or renovating is nerve-wracking and can challenge even the most relaxed people you know.

Those who absorb the shock waves are the professionals, designers and architects.

How do they deal with it and why in order to complete a degree in architecture are you required to take a course in psychology?

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David Rosenthal

Friday, 03 December 2021, 06:55

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Moving house is not a simple story.

Mental health experts believe that the process may create anxiety or exacerbate existing coping difficulties.

According to a 2019 UK survey, 40 per cent of respondents claimed that moving house was the most mentally charged and challenging experience of their lives.

And what about the side of the professionals?

Specializing in drawing, finishing materials and color matching will not suffice.

In practice, the architects and designers find themselves preoccupied with the human psyche - compromising, mediating and reassuring everyone involved, from the couple, working in the new offices, between the professionals and the contractor and more.

The architect as a psychologist is no longer a myth, but a considerable and important part of the work.

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Leads the process.

Itai Linenberg (Photo: PR)

Architect Itai Linenberg from Rosen Linenberg Architects says: "In designing public buildings such as municipal buildings in local authorities, we create a new organizational structure for the employees, often different from what they were used to. Beyond arranging the employee's personal study, his habits matter. office building, coffee, environment and daily habits. planning public buildings, there is a reference to the hundreds of casualties, should be located in close proximity and in relation to each other, along with the many constraints of space and organization.

"even when it comes to new construction, or modification and redesign of the structure Existing, the role of the architect is to lead the process. Communicate the rationale behind the design of the new structure to all employees of the organization. In the meantime, more than once or twice we find ourselves sitting one on one with a dissatisfied employee and explaining to him how we acted, and what is the logic behind this or that choice. "

The reference to architects also comes in projects of urban renewal, in which the role of the architect is to mediate between the apartment owners and the developer, as well as between the apartment owners themselves.

The gap between public and private construction is large mainly because of the masses.

In the amount of people it is important to do with them a process that will lead the construction to the best place possible.

In the end, we operate with an anchor - do not get carried away by the desires or emotional requests of an employee or tenant, because once we deviate from the path and logic of the matter, unwanted top waves are created.

"Logic is not a mathematical formula, for the most part, the way to reach an understanding between the parties and quality results is done by clarifying the wishes and intentions of the architect."

Working with masses of people.

Ness Ziona Community Center Recreation House designed by Itai Linenberg (Photo: Amit Giron, Rosen-Linenberg Architects)

On the one hand a designer, on the other a psychologist.

Michaeli (Photo: Yehudit Hoffman)

But even in private construction, for spouses, the architect should serve as a mediator.

"Throughout the process of home design I meet a lot of dilemmas and desires between spouses," says interior designer Daniel Michaeli. ", To present the advantages and disadvantages of both opinions and my professional opinion and together with the couple to reach an equal valley. People are inherently different and these frictions and gaps are something I deal with on a daily basis."

Michaeli adds: "The designer's work as a broker ends not only with the clients, but also among the professionals in the project. Therefore, the biggest mistake a client can make is to take professionals separately who do not know and have never worked together. It is important to hire a construction supervisor. It's an area that revolves around a lot of ego, and there are no precise definitions of who does what, so it's important to choose a contractor who has experienced and experienced staff who do not change all the time and who know how to work collaboratively. "You do not really understand what your main occupation is, on the one hand you are a designer and on the other hand - you are a mediator psychologist, and to do it correctly you need experience gained over the years. No curriculum can prepare you for such situations."

Any such planning is accompanied by a lot of mental effort.

A house designed by Daniel Michaeli (Photo: Sharon Tzarfati)

Dive into intimate details.

Boaz Snir (Photo: Valery Zioz)

"When I studied architecture there was an 'Introduction to Psychology' course. I did not understand why architects should study it. Today I understand that an architect is not just a half psychologist, he is more than that - he is both a psychologist and a mediator, he has to be very sensitive to his work environment," he adds. Architect Boaz Snir, "Because we deal with customers' money, a lot of money, all the couple's savings that go into building the house create a lot of stress and tension. "More for the bathroom, who puts dishes in the dishwasher? Arranging a division in the closet and in daily activities that dictate planning - there is no doubt that all of these things need to be talked about and bridged."

"Who wakes up to the bathroom more?"

A house designed by Boaz Snir (Photo: Valery Zioz)

Snir adds: "Today in many projects there is a project manager or supervisor and his job is to mediate in disputes between suppliers and customers, and that makes it a bit easier for the architect. Still, working with professionals who have no previous work experience will lead to a good place. Between different people who do not get along with each other. "

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