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A Regional Oncology Centre for Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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A Regional Oncology Centre for Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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STATUS
Concept
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5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft
This project is concerned with the design of an Oncology Centre for Port Elizabeth.
Recent regular visits to an Oncology Centre have led to a concern about the
impersonal and institutional nature of such centres and the negative effect that this
can have on patients, staff and visitors. This has stimulated an interest in the way in
which architectural spaces and forms can be used to create an overall environment
that can act as an important catalyst in the healing process.
Current Oncology Centres concentrate almost exclusively on curative care, but
palliative care can also prove to be a major factor in improving a patient’s recovery
time and quality of life. An opportunity exists to combine the two forms of care and
to develop an architectural response that facilitates this process.
In this treatise an investigative study of existing Oncology Centres is carried out in
which an understanding of the building typology and technical requirements is
formulated. To this end, a number of Maggie’s Centres, which provide psychosocial
counselling and symptom treatment for terminal cancer patients, were also studied
to gain insight into the nature of palliative care and its architectural and contextual
requirements.
The design aim of the treatise is to create an Oncology Centre that will provide
architectural spaces that are not only conducive to a technical cure, but also
facilitate palliative care as an important mediator between patient and recovery.
The site selected on the edge of the Baakens valley enhances the process by
forming a crucial link between the patient and the natural environment, whilst at
the same time linking back to the additional medical facilities that can be provided
by a major hospital.
Recent regular visits to an Oncology Centre have led to a concern about the
impersonal and institutional nature of such centres and the negative effect that this
can have on patients, staff and visitors. This has stimulated an interest in the way in
which architectural spaces and forms can be used to create an overall environment
that can act as an important catalyst in the healing process.
Current Oncology Centres concentrate almost exclusively on curative care, but
palliative care can also prove to be a major factor in improving a patient’s recovery
time and quality of life. An opportunity exists to combine the two forms of care and
to develop an architectural response that facilitates this process.
In this treatise an investigative study of existing Oncology Centres is carried out in
which an understanding of the building typology and technical requirements is
formulated. To this end, a number of Maggie’s Centres, which provide psychosocial
counselling and symptom treatment for terminal cancer patients, were also studied
to gain insight into the nature of palliative care and its architectural and contextual
requirements.
The design aim of the treatise is to create an Oncology Centre that will provide
architectural spaces that are not only conducive to a technical cure, but also
facilitate palliative care as an important mediator between patient and recovery.
The site selected on the edge of the Baakens valley enhances the process by
forming a crucial link between the patient and the natural environment, whilst at
the same time linking back to the additional medical facilities that can be provided
by a major hospital.
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