​Defining a Healing Environment framework and translating it to spatial principles for the Masterplan of Emergis, Kloetinge​ – Advisory track 

Defining a healing environment means translating care into space — shaping places that quietly support recovery, dignity, and belonging in everyday life.

Client: Emergis
Year: 2025 - 2026
​Location: Kloetinge, Zeeland

A Campus as a Healing Landscape

Emergis Kloetinge is more than a care campus. It is a place where space, community, and care come together — and where the environment itself actively contributes to recovery.
As a healing environment advisor, I worked alongside the design team and client to translate this ambition into spatial strategies for the masterplan. Rather than prescribing design solutions, the aim was to define a framework that helps designers understand how architecture, landscape, and organisation can support mental health.

A Framework for Healing

The advisory process focused on three interconnected layers: physical space, social environment, and organisation and culture. Together, these layers define how a place can support movement, safety, dignity, and belonging over time.
This framework was used as a guiding lens throughout the sketch design phase, translating healing principles into spatial questions and design directions — from movement and orientation to gradients of publicness and the relationship between buildings and landscape.

From Vision to Spatial Experience

A key part of the work was bridging abstract values and spatial design, ensuring that ideas such as healing, togetherness, and safety become visible and testable in plans, sections, and perspectives.
The framework does not function as a checklist, but as a tool for decision-making — supporting the creation of a campus that feels legible, calm, inclusive, and rooted in its context.
The result is a masterplan that positions Kloetinge not only as a place of treatment, but as a landscape of recovery, where everyday movement, encounters, and environments contribute to healing.