Healing Habitation
As a culmination of my undergraduate architectural studies, my thesis takes cues from the pleasurable effects induced within monumental religious architecture and prioritizes sensorial design in spaces intended for cancer patient’s treatment and healing processes. In designing a more humanistic approach to the design of medical spaces, a middle ground between medical and sensorial spaces which offers sterilized and effective designs that are also comfortable and inviting, is achievable. With patients undergoing harsh treatments, learning about life altering diagnoses, and at times having to cope with accepting their inevitable death, they deserve a space which relaxes their minds and eases their worries. Located off the City of Hope compound in Duarte, a comprehensive cancer center and specialization hospital, these fourteen healing habitations offer long-term and short-term residency for cancer patients and their caretakers.
























