Tanja C VollmerTechnische Universität München | TUM · School of Engineering and Design / Department of Architecture
Tanja C Vollmer
Professor, PhD
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Introduction
Tanja C. Vollmer is founder and scientific director of Kopvol architecture & psychology in Berlin & Rotterdam (kopvol.com). Since 2016 she academically represents and builds up the field of architectural psychology in Germany, first at TU Berlin, since 2019 as professor (gp) at TU Munich. Her research focuses on human factors in architecture and engineering (perception, needs and mental health). Research by Design and Evidence Based Design are her most frequently used scientific methods.
Additional affiliations
February 2019 - present
Faculty of Architecture
Position
- Professor
April 2016 - December 2018
Institute of Architecture
Position
- Professor
January 2009 - March 2016
Institute of Applied Psychology in Architecture and Health
Position
- Research Director
Publications
Publications (50)
Objectives
To identify available literature on the impact of built environments on health, behavior, and quality of life of individuals with intellectual disabilities in long-term care. Additionally, we aimed to map the available literature, (re)frame the overall research situation in this area, and formulate recommendations.
Background
Long-term...
What spaces and architectures do people need to get healthy? How do healthcare buildings of the future take into account and meet the needs of people who are ill? The structural change in the German health care system requires new, sustainable architectural concepts that are derived from a deeper understanding of human nature on the one hand and a...
What spaces and architectures do people need to get healthy? How do healthcare buildings of the future take into account and meet the needs of people who are ill? The structural change in the German health care system requires new, sustainable architectural concepts that are derived from a deeper understanding of human nature on the one hand and a...
What spaces and architectures do people need to get healthy? How do healthcare buildings of the future take into account and meet the needs of people who are ill? The structural change in the German health care system requires new, sustainable architectural concepts that are derived from a deeper understanding of human nature on the one hand and a...
What spaces and architectures do people need to get healthy? How do healthcare buildings of the future take into account and meet the needs of people who are ill? The structural change in the German health care system requires new, sustainable architectural concepts that are derived from a deeper understanding of human nature on the one hand and a...
What spaces and architectures do people need to get healthy? How do healthcare buildings of the future take into account and meet the needs of people who are ill? The structural change in the German health care system requires new, sustainable architectural concepts that are derived from a deeper understanding of human nature on the one hand and a...
What spaces and architectures do people need to get healthy? How do healthcare buildings of the future take into account and meet the needs of people who are ill? The structural change in the German health care system requires new, sustainable architectural concepts that are derived from a deeper understanding of human nature on the one hand and a...
What spaces and architectures do people need to get healthy? How do healthcare buildings of the future take into account and meet the needs of people who are ill? The structural change in the German health care system requires new, sustainable architectural concepts that are derived from a deeper understanding of human nature on the one hand and a...
Children with cancer are frequently hospitalized during diagnosis and treatment. Since the early 1980s, parents are co-admitted because their presence positively affects children’s adjustment to hospitalization and reduces post-traumatic stress. However, the size and overall architectural design of the rooms were never adapted to the doubling of th...
Waiting hurts
No visit to the doctor without waiting. What happens to us in the process? What influence does the environment have? Tanja C. Vollmer on the psychology of the waiting room. Short article with current literature list on the influence of waiting on the human psyche.
(...)Please wait. The doctor will call you." Faint, incomprehension. "...
Tanja C Vollmer, Gemma Koppen & Ulrich Keilholz present the results of their empirical clinical pilot study at Charité Berlin ‘Raum für Nähe und Distanz. Raumwahrnehmung und Gestaltungspräferenz in der ambulanten Chemotherapie’. (Space for closeness and distance. Spatial perception and design preference in ambulatory chemotherapy).
Das dapo-Jahrbuch ist eine Schriftenreihe der ältesten Fachgesellschaft für Psychoonkologie Deutschlands: dapo e.V. Seit 1995 stellt sie Beiträge zur Auseinandersetzung mit zentralen Themen der Psychoonkologie zusammen. Erfahrene Experten aus der psychoonkologischen Versorgungspraxis und Wissenschaft geben in ihren Beiträgen Fachwissen preis und ge...
Zusammenfassung
Der Mensch steht in ständiger Wechselwirkung mit seiner Umwelt. Führt diese Interaktion zur individuellen Verinnerlichung der Umwelt, die in der Psychologie als „Aneignung“ bezeichnet wird, wirkt sie sich positiv auf seine Gesundheit und sein Wohlbefinden aus. Zur Förderung der Aneignung muss Stadtarchitektur auf menschliche Bedürfn...
When we fall ill, the rooms in which we feel comfortable also change. Architectural psychologist Tanja Vollmer on the house as an extended identity space.Psychology Heute in an interview with Professor Axel Buether and Tanja C. Vollmer. Embedded in an exciting article about the “spaces of the soul”, the two scientists answer questions such as: “Wha...
Qualitative spatial concepts (QRs) are an important addition to the conventional room program of a new building. They ensure that qualitative requirements defined by the users and operators of a building are presented in such a way that architects can understand them and integrate them efficiently into their design. QRs are of particular importance...
Do people who are diagnosed with cancer with good chances of recovery still feel close to death? And what does the confrontation with the finitude of life mean for the design of the living environments of these people? The researchers present here parts of the results of their study ‘Perception of time in subjective proximity to death’ and prove pe...
Qualitative spatial concepts (QRs) are an important addition to the conventional room program of a new building. They ensure that qualitative requirements defined by the users and operators of a building are presented in such a way that architects can understand them and integrate them efficiently into their design. QRs are of particular importance...
In insightful examples from the past and present of architecture of health care facilities and hospitals, architectural psychologist Tanja C. Vollmer examines the concept of ‘healing architecture’. The researcher’s aim is to show the intersections of technical- and human science in an exemplary way and to work out their mutual potential. For years...
If our environment, buildings and cities, even hospitals cause stress that makes us sick, can architecture be used to prevent this stress and stay healthy? Visiting professor Dr. Tanja C. Vollmer is currently working on these and other questions at the TU Berlin. It is the first European professorship for architectural psychology and thus a psychol...
In her contribution ‘Form Follows Needs’ Tanja C. Vollmer takes a critical look at the DesignBuild method from the perspective of an architectural psychologist. The contribution is part of a sequence of academic analyses from the fields of architectural theory, philosophy, social pedagogy and art history, among others. It appears in the book public...
Architektur beeinflusst uns wie kaum ein anderer Umweltfaktor. Eine intensive Beschäftigung mit ihr ist deshalb in unserem ureigensten Interesse. Architekten, Psychologen, Bildhauer, Kunstdidaktiker, Geschichts- und Medienwissenschaftler, Kunstgeschichts- und Erziehungswissenschaftler widmen sich in diesem Grundlagenwerk den unterschiedlichen Facet...
Zusammenfassung
Vom Heilungserfolg wissenschaftsbasierter Architektur für Kinder- und Jugendkliniken Kann man Heilungs- und Entwicklungschancen hospitalisierter Kinder und Jugendlicher mittels Architektur verbessern? Noch nie wurde der Frage so konsequent nachgegangen wie in der neuen Kinder- und Jugendklinik der Universität Freiburg. Seit 2013 arb...
Etwa 30–35% aller Krebspatienten zeigen im Laufe ihrer Erkrankung
psychische Beeinträchtigungen, die behandelt werden
müssten (Weis, 2007).
Dieser Bedarf wird vielfach nicht abgedeckt. Die Nachfrage
nach qualifizierten Psychoonkologen ist bereits gegenwärtig
um ein Vielfaches größer als die Behandlungsmöglichkeiten.
Sehr häufig müssen Krebspatiente...
VOLLMER T.C., WITTMANN M., SCHWEIGER C. & HIDDEMANN W. (2011) European Journal of Cancer Care20, 403–411 Preoccupation with death as predictor of psychological distress in patients with haematologic malignancies
The purpose of the present study was to identify preoccupation with death in relation to levels of psychological distress in patients with...
“The book is the cornerstone of modern architectural psychology”, architecture critic and author Charles Jencks states in 2012 in his lecture at the NAI (Netherlands Architecture Institute) in Rotterdam. There he presents his idea of an ‘Architecture for Hope’: therapy and meeting centers for people with cancer, all designed by architectural greats...
Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are a heterogeneous group of diseases mainly affecting older people. The use of an increasing number of therapeutic options depends on a systematic risk stratification of the patients. A high percentage of MDS patients need blood transfusions as supportive care, which influence quality of life and cause a great part...
The experience of time is strongly related to our momentary mood states. Patients with a life-threatening illness experience an extreme change in mood and suffer from psychological distress that can develop into clinically relevant psychiatric disorders, like anxiety and depression. The aim of this study was to investigate the associations among th...
Preoccupation with death as predictor of psychological distress in patients with haematologic malignancies The purpose of the present study was to identify preoccupation with death in relation to levels of psychological distress in patients with haematologic malignancies. One hundred and two inpatients with haematologic malignancies, treated with c...
Die Autorin lässt uns in diesem schön ausgestatteten und gut zu lesenden Band an ihren Erfahrungen mit kreativem Schreiben als psychoonkologischer Therapie teilnehmen. Dabei versteht sie es, den Leser neugierig zu machen durch die 11 Falldarstellungen, mit deren Hilfe sie einen unmittelbaren Einblick in ihre Begegnungen mit den Patienten und die Er...
Sexuality in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has received little attention so far. Although sexual function is not directly affected by the disease process, several patients have reported problems within their sexual relationship. We performed a questionnaire survey to ascertain the extent and clinical relevance of sexual problems...
Purpose:
To evaluate the influence of germ-cell tumour therapy on sexual functioning and subjective quality of life (QL). To investigate the communication about sexual problems between patients, their partners, and doctors. In all, 474 patients treated for germ-cell tumours at the Department of Internal Medicine III, Ludwig-Maximilians-University...
Wenn sich herausstellt, dass eine Erkrankung einer kurativen Therapie nicht mehr zugänglich ist, treten massive Ängste beim Patienten aber auch Hilflosigkeits- und Unsicherheitsgefühle beim Behandler auf. Auf Patientenseite lassen sich die globalen Ängste in 3 Belastungsbereiche einteilen, die bei schrittweiser Bewältigung in die Aufrechterhaltung...
Wenn sich herausstellt, dass eine Erkrankung einer kurativen Therapie nicht mehr zugänglich ist, treten massive Ängste beim Patienten aber auch Hilflosigkeits- und Unsicherheitsgefühle beim Behandler auf. Auf Patientenseite lassen sich die globalen Ängste in 3 Belastungsbereiche einteilen, die bei schrittweiser Bewältigung in die Aufrechterhaltung...
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