The Design

TRANSITIONAL HOSPICE AND CONVENT

Admission Getting comfortable in the new place Shown dignity and love by caregivers tethering the residents to life while hinting at the divine. . .

Sensory experiences serve as a vessel to the Divine. . . TRANSITIONAL

Physical death The after

TRANSITIONAL

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- Introduce native vegetation to the site through layering, so it becomes natural yet maintained from being chaotic

rin nat rally filtered river ater thro h the site and into the building HOSPICE AND CONVENT

- Make each space sacred by using the sensory experiences as a vessel to the divine; using the known to get to the unknown

- Design by nature, time, movement, and canon

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TIME - COSMOS The architecture raises the gaze upwards to the heavens, the timekeepers - sun and moon - and the changing skies. This is expressive of inwards looking upwards, or the individual contemplating themselves in relation to God

“God has made everything appropriate to its time, but has put the timeless into their hearts so they cannot find out, from beginning to end, the work which God has done.” - Ecclesiastes 3: 11

NATURE - EARTH The architecture champions the horizon, framing in nature, and an intimate human scale. This is expressive of inwards looking outwards, or the individual contemplating themselves in relation to others and the world.

“Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes of eternal power and divinity have been able to be understood and perceived in what he has made.” - Romans 1: 19-20

MOVEMENT - CYCLES The architecture provides respite from immersion in the outoors, leaving the individual from sheltered to exposed. This is expressive of outwards looking inwards, or the individual contemplating themselves.

“For ‘In him we live and move and have our being,’* as even some of your poets have said... - Acts 17: 28

THE ESSENTIAL In investigating what is essential in a room I realized it was 3 elements: rest, cleansing, and an element separating the two. Architecturally, rest is represented by the bed, cleansing by the bath, and privacy by the wall. These three elements are what structure the spatial dimension of the individual’s life while in the hospice room, especially when they reach a stage of being onfined to the bed

A simple parti was made more dynamic by adding a curve to the wall, as a reference to the rolling hills of the site and to the nature of the human body