This work arose from a curiosity to explore the dialog between internal and external worlds. Paying particular attention to cases where this relationship is seen as atypical, such as the treatment of psychological disorders through psychiatric hospitalization, we sought to gather elements that would inform a broader analysis and debate on the subject.

        We placed ourselves in a context that is particularly pertinent given the circumstances that underlie this issue, where the promotion and sensitization of mental health through the design of space is more frequently seen, affirming the role of architecture as a complement to that of its native disciplines. In this sense, we have resorted to the study of written thoughts and built works considered to be illustrative of the direction taken in this paradigm shift. It was in the course of this interdisciplinary analysis that we selected a practical case study which, on the one hand, would summarize some of the relevant spatial principles for designing mental health spaces, and on the other hand, would also serve as a phenomenological and artistic object of study which, through the use of a photographic device capable of communicating moments of strong spatial phenomenology, would express the link between this architecture and some of its design principles.

        We found in certain premises within the scope of research into the phenomenology of space the ability to support our quest for these same conjectures, allowing two of the dialogues between inside and outside to be brought into tangent - that of a human with their environment; and that of architecture with its context. Starting with an initial documentary and descriptive photographic capture of the spaces visited, we worked towards a photographic device that, born from the spatial characteristics of one of the works visited, would simultaneously combine its process of fixing light on a physical support with the intuitive handling of that device.

        We believe that the methodological approaches of art and phenomenology can complement each other, providing a richer and more multidimensional understanding of the complex human condition. Art has a long history as a therapeutic tool, and phenomenology is not limited to a philosophy of experience, but can also serve as a robust methodology that integrates quantitative and qualitative methods to describe and understand human experiences.

        In the technique of pinhole photography, we are faced with the possibility of (re)discovering and revealing new spatial poetics, by exploring the elements that define these spaces. A project that seeks to stimulate a richer and more complete study of these architectural spaces, encouraging reflection that is not limited to deciphering, describing or transforming a given reality, but does all of this simultaneously.