― Cancer Care
Design for exceptional personalized care
Contents
Introduction ― 4 Selected Projects ― 8
Front Cover: CARTI Cancer Center, CARTI, Little Rock, Arkansas Left: MSK Monmouth Regional Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Middletown, New Jersey
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― Cancer Care
Human-centered design The best cancer treatment environments support personalized disease management and cure through flexible design solutions that promote wellness and renewal. Our projects demonstrate how the physical environment can be a care partner—exceeding the expectations of patients, families and caregivers on their journey to health and wellbeing.
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Cancer Care
Responsive therapeutic environments for people.
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Personalized
Connected
Collaborative
A place for people. Every cancer
A place that fosters hope
A place that supports
patient’s journey is personal; no
and connection with natural
advanced, highly specialized
two patients or diagnoses are
orders and cycles—a sense of
treatment protocols
exactly alike; no loved one is
community that supports both
administered by a team of
standardized.
the dedicated people who work
engaged, collaborative, multi-
within its walls and those who
disciplinary professionals
come there to heal.
focused on the whole person.
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Selected Projects
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth Regional Cancer Center Middletown, New Jersey Client: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Size: 154,000 square feet (14, 307 square meters) Completion Date: 2016 Sustainability: LEED Gold® Awards: Healthcare Interior Design Award – Ambulatory Cancer Center category, IIDA, 2017 Best in Category, Cancer Care, Healthcare Design Remodel-Renovation Competition, 2017 Best of Year Honoree – Healthcare Category, Interior Design, 2017 Shortlisted – Healthcare Unbuilt Category, World Architecture News, 2012
― WHAT IT IS
The transformation of a former suburban office building into a memorable regional cancer center through an experiential design that recalls ‘a walk in the woods.’
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The building settles into the neighboring woodlands and takes advantage of direct views of nature.
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth Regional Cancer Center
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Biophilic design informs planning of clinical areas and infusion; views of nature, natural materials and color palettes extend the experience.
Clockwise from Top Right: Daylit imaging and imageguided procedure rooms transform the patient and staff experience. Biophilic design informs planning of clinical areas and infusion; views of nature, natural materials and color palettes extend the experience. Stepped 6-chair private infusion pods allow all patients panoramic views of nature and staff visibility of their faces throughout chemotherapy.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth Regional Cancer Center
To enhance patient arrival and wayfinding and increase natural light and views, a three-story courtyard bisects the floorplate, following the arc of the sun. Upper-level glass-enclosed bridges connect patient areas and amplify the courtyard experience.
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Dens, parlors and libraries alongside the center’s main corridors provide patients with micro-experiences—a concept that the client has taken to its broader MSK network of healthcare facilities.
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UTSW Radiation Oncology Dallas, Texas Client: UT Southwestern Medical Center Size: 71,000 square feet (6,596 square meters) Completion Date: 2017 Awards: Outstanding Medical Real Estate Project, D CEO Excellence In Healthcare Awards, 2017
Clockwise from Top Right: Patient and staff experience are improved in a clutter-free environment. Technical corridor provides behind-the-scenes access to positioning equipment and supplies. Control desk with view through vault to technical corridor.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
The first-of-itskind two-door vault design creates a more efficient and pleasant treatment environment for both patients and staff.
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UTSW Radiation Oncology
― WHAT IT IS
A radiation oncology environment that brings together disease oriented teams to advance research and treatment.
↑ Main Entry
← Light-filled treatment corridor
→ Disease oriented team work environment
CARTI Cancer Center Little Rock, Arkansas Client: CARTI Size: 176,000 square feet (16,350 square meters) Completion Date: 2015 Awards: People’s Choice Award, Built Project, AIA Georgia, 2017 Market Award - Large Healthcare, Shaw Contract, 2017 Design Excellence Award – Gold, Healthcare, Over 10,000 SF, ASID Georgia, 2016
Clockwise from Top Right: Building set within a wooded site; Themed wayfinding; Light-filled infusion area
― WHAT IT IS
A comprehensive oncology center that provides a comforting and sensitive patient environment while addressing the needs of clinicians and caregivers.
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CARTI Cancer Center
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
The infusion therapy center, located on the fourth floor, takes advantage of the dramatic natural landscape of heavily wooded hills and distant mountains.
↑ South façade overhang mitigates solar heat gain
← Inspirational touchpoints theme each floor
→ First floor main entry
Texas Oncology Fort Worth Fort Worth, Texas Client: Cambridge Development Size: 94,000 square feet (8,733 square meters) Completion Date: 2018
― WHAT IT IS
A cancer center located within a tight urban site with demanding programmatic operational needs.
CONSOLIDATE PROGRAM
EMPHASIZE CIRCULATION
PLACE VAULTS ON FIRST FLOOR
GARDEN ABOVE VAULTS
VIEWS TO DOWNTOWN
2016 DEAR
The design of the Cancer Center follows a simple parti with a four-story glass curtain wall accentuating the main entrance. Locally honed Texas limestone adds warmth to the building façade’s modern aesthetic. Linear accelerators are clad in natural wood, creating a soft street edge that complements the stone. The vault roof is clad in a landscaped pattern of grass, groundcover, and two types of river rock, giving visual interest to the infusion area on the third floor.
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Texas Oncology Fort Worth
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Patients have a choice between individual or community treatment environments, with additional flexibility to accommodate visiting family and friends.
↑ A demonstration kitchen promotes healthy diets to help in the patients healing.
← Infusion bays have unencumbered views of downtown Fort Worth.
→ Lobby
Puget Sound Cancer Center Edmonds, Washington Client: Swedish Cancer Institute Size: 17,000 square feet (1,580 square meters) Completion Date: 2012
― WHAT IT IS
Modular prefabricated infusion chemotherapy clinic for cancer patients within an existing healthcare campus.
The modular prefabricated infusion clinic was designed and constructed in a fast track process.
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Puget Sound Cancer Center
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← Waiting area with views to nature
↓ Healing garden
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Constructed in the field from 24 prefabricated modular building components, this facility achieves maximum construction efficiency and portability. 31
Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center Dallas, Texas Client: Baylor University Medical Center Size: 500,000 square feet (46,452 square meters) Completion Date: 2011 Sustainability: LEED Gold® Awards: International Health Project Category, International Design & Health Academy Awards, 2013 Healthcare Award of Merit, ENR Texas & Louisiana, 2011 Distinction User-Centered Award, Healthcare Facilities Symposium, 2011
― WHAT IT IS
Healthcare Design Excellence Award International Interior Design Association, Texas Oklahoma Chapter, 2011 Award of Excellence, Architectural Woodwork Institute, 2011 TEXO Distinguished Building Award, 2012 Best Medical Project, Best Real Estate Deals, Dallas Business Journal, 2011
The largest advanced comprehensive outpatient cancer center in North Texas provides human-centered, convenient, and comfortable care.
Addressing the need for a defined sense of place with an overarching desire to “embrace” the patients, staff, and visitors, the building’s large, semi-circular plan with a curved connecting bridge between the outpatient cancer center and the existing inpatient care buildings provides a clear, civic sense of arrival.
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Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center
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← Radiation vault
↓ Upper concourse
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
The center carefully choreographs a patient’s experience to deliver an individual continuum of care —this has been mapped onto a patient navigation program to guide patients and families through the cancer journey. 35
The Lennar Foundation Medical Center Coral Gables, Florida Client: UHealth Gables Size: Cancer Program: 43,000 square feet (3,995 square meters) / Facility: 206,000 square feet (19,138 square meters) Completion Date: 2016 Sustainability: LEED Silver ® Awards: Merit Award, Built Project, AIA Georgia, 2018 Silver Design Award, Corporate – Healthcare Over 10,000 SF, ASID Georgia, 2018 Best of Healthcare, Larger than 35,000 SF, Best of the Best, IIDA Georgia, 2018 Finalist, Project of the Year, ULI Southeast Florida/ Caribbean, 2018
― WHAT IT IS
A multidisciplinary cancer and outpatient surgery center located within a multi-specialty ambulatory care center for University of Miami.
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The new facility is the flagship of University of Miami/ UHealth’s outpatient services brand.
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The Lennar Foundation Medical Center
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
On-stage/off-stage planning allows for improved work flow for staff and areas of quiet respite for patients and family.
↑ Reflection terrace
← Staff respite area
→ Private cancer treatment bay
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Laboratory Medicine Building New York, New York Client: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Size: 91,000 square feet (8,454 square meters) Completion Date: 2018
― WHAT IT IS
A consolidated regional clinical laboratory building for cancer care serves as a hub and template for all laboratory services.
←→ A flexible bench layout, automated open lab environments, and attention to workplace and staff respite are a model for laboratory environments system wide.
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Laboratory Medicine Building
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
The full-height glass curtain wall employs a solarresponsive pattern that limits solar gain and glare, while evoking DNA mapping used in advanced cancer treatment.
Top Right: Nestled on a tight urban site, this building processes samples from the entire MSK system that arrive via ground floor vehicular drop off. Above: Flexible lunchroom, education and conference space on the upper floor accesses a terrace formed from the required zoning setback. Right: Highly automated, flexible plugand-play benches are set back from the full height glazed wall.
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