Cameron Clarke has proposed integrating a series of community healthcare facilities into Beijing's hutongs to help alleviate China's mental health crisis.
The proposal, named Close to Home, is designed by Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (KADK) graduate Clarke to offer an alternative to the country's typical mental health clinics that he describes as "large, centralised and inhumane".

Based in a district in central Beijing, the project sees a number of small mental wellness clinics nestled in and around existing hutongs ? tightly packed neighbourhoods that are typical in the city ? and larger public buildings.
Clarke believes that the integration of these clinics would make healthcare more accessible to locals.
"Through discussions with local academics and mental healthcare workers I have seen how China's mental health infrastructure has been left long behind developments in the rest of the economy, leaving millions of suffers without care," Clarke told Dezeen.
"This project comprises of a number of small scale architectural and spatial interventions across the city, which each respond to specific opportunities found within the existing city fabric, and each with specific psychological benefits," he continued.
"By bringing treatment closer to home, the hope is that more in the local communities will engage with their and their loved ones mental health."

Close to Home is the culmination of two years of research carried out by Clark...