Andrea McIntosh

Andrea  McIntosh is a Frost Nations Intern Architect and researcher exploring  the intersection of architecture, neuroscience, psychology, and health.  Her work investigates how built environments shape emotional experience,  cognition, wellbeing, and human behavior.

Her current focus is  the emerging field of psychedelic therapy facility design. Through an  interdisciplinary design research project, Andrea examines how  architecture can support therapeutic care, emotional regulation,  introspection, and transformative experiences within  psychedelic-assisted treatment environments. Her work draws from  neuroscience, environmental psychology, salutogenic design, and  healthcare architecture to explore how spatial and material qualities  influence healing and lived experience.

Andrea is particularly  interested in the idea of architecture as part of the therapeutic  infrastructure itself: environments that actively participate in care  rather than simply containing it. Alongside design practice, she  develops research-driven frameworks that bridge scientific thinking with  emotionally resonant and human-centered architecture, contributing to  new conversations around the future of health, healing, and spatial  experience.