Where do you feel safe in a room? You may feel safe in a corner where you have control over the whole area, where you can see the door and at the same time have the possibility to look through the window. In the institutions I have visited, the beds have mostly been in the wrong corner - facing the door. In addition, the bed has only been a bed... with white sheets and white pillowcases as if you were supposed to sleep the whole day long. An ordinary hotel room is more suitable for a patient. In constructing the room I enlarged the effect of the corner by building the wall thicker (depth 25cm in addition to the ordinary wall) behind the bed/sofa. The thicker part rose to a height suitable for resting a person's arm. My intention was to let form embrace and protect. To offer alternative positions the bed/sofa was generously dimensioned (200x150cm). Windows are often too large at institutions without any other way of reducing light than to pull the curtains, something which gives the feeling of illness, reminding you of your condition. In the experiment the window was made as a deep opening, indicating the wall as a thick protection in which a space of light separates the outside from the inner room. Cupboards built around the window may easily give this effect. The partition of the opening allows different solutions for screening: some with sliding doors, some with opaque or yellow glass to reduce the light level when it is required. The door is an important element in a room of this kind. The fearful always have to know were the exit is. A possible solution would be to construct the doorframe broad and slightly protruding, deep enough to allow the installation of indirect soft light. This is especially important during the night. (Published in Proceedings of the 4th European Full-scale Modelling Conference, Lausanne 1992)