1999-2000 DuPont Benedictus
Student Design Competition |
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Team Effort
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| The Challenge:
Health Facility is often the most complex of architectural
projects - both technically and aesthetically. And nowhere
is there a greater need for integrating human needs with
technology than in the Cancer Center design amongst the
health facilities. From the point of view of a cancer patient,
we understand the all-consuming emotional uncertainty that
magnifies all of their senses. That which is at all unfamiliar
becomes foreign, that which lacks clarity becomes disorienting,
that which is noisy becomes deafening. Therefore in designing
a more workable and efficient cancer center we have undertaken
the challenge from a point of view to present the user group
a more familiar, convenient and simple design approach which
would not create a sense of mystery amongst them.
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| The Concept
"Bringing in the physique
While letting the psyche free."
The abundance of green trees, the
murmur of the cascade below, the floating glassy egg, blue
ocean at stress, the simple form in view, the calmness surrounding
will transcend the mind to a place not known while letting
the body inside unconscious.
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| Areas
of Focus Creating a street
(atrium) that bridges between the public(non-clinical) and
the more clinical in a harmonious rhythm. Preserving the
familiarity in arrangement in the clinical facility. Transparency
of the research area to generate a sense of hope amongst
the incumbent. Play of nature in the built form with a view
to softening the coldness. A sense of floating and lightness
representing the carefree state of mind. |
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| The Fundamentals
The art in cancer center
Orientation and clear finding.
Personal privacy, confidentiality and respect.
Individual control of the environment.
The place that educates rather than mystifies.
A sense of hope.
The science in cancer center design
Adequate structural capacity to
support the facility and its equipments.
A clear understanding of functional and operational activities
that take place within the cancer center. |
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