Sparsh Hospice Design - Architectural Thesis

Figure 6-1 Painting Depicting hospital conditions in the Middle ages ....................... 67 Figure 6-2 Restorative garden at the Essa Flory Hospice Centre, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, allows for respite and contemplation along paths and semi-private areas .... 68 Figure 6-3Marie Curie Cancer Care, Bradford, U.K. ................................................ 68 Figure 6-4 Christopher House, Austin, Texas resonates remembrance through a wall mural with casts of hands of former patients ....................................................................... 70 Figure 6-5 Granite Boulder Deposits on Site ........................................................... 71 Figure 6-6 Rock deposits on proposed Site ............................................................. 71 Figure 6-7Stone Marking the Entrance .................................................................... 72 Figure 6-8The Circle of friends ................................................................................ 73 Figure 6-9 Engraved Names in The Circle of Friends .............................................. 73 Figure 6-10 The Haemophilia Memorial ................................................................... 74 Figure 6-11 Stone Memorials, Benches, Boulders ................................................... 74 Figure 6-12 The Seating Spaces ............................................................................. 75 Figure 6-13 The Grove ............................................................................................ 75 Figure 6-14 Layout of Garden .................................................................................. 77 Figure 6-15 Dora Efthim Garden Centre .................................................................. 77 Figure 6-16 Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care, Baltimore, Maryland. ....................... 78 Figure 6-17 Houston Hospice restorative Garden integrating all kinds of spaces. Added Gazebo for mediation and small gathering spaces accompanied by the children’s park and naturally shaded pathways. ................................................................................................. 78 Figure 6-18 Dedicated nursery at Sun Health Hospice, Scottsdale, Arizona ............ 79 Figure 6-19 Waterscape adjoining Rooms in AHI Hospice, Japan ........................... 79 Figure 6-20 LaGrange Hospice providing courtyard and a variety of landscape spaces for residents ........................................................................................................................ 80 Figure 6-21 Children's Play Area at George Mark Children’s Hospice, San Leandro, California............................................................................................................................. 80 Figure 6-22 Stainless Steel Tree in North London Hospice...................................... 81 Figure 6-23 Seirei-Mikatagahara Hospital Hospice, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan ..... 82 Figure 6-24 Bear Cottage Children’s Hospice, New South Wales, Australia demonstates low contact but high visual connection to nature ............................................ 82 Figure 6-25 Sun Health Hospice, Scottsdale, Arizona maintains natural desert landscape ........................................................................................................................... 83 Figure 6-26 Landscape of Stone.............................................................................. 85 Figure 7-1 Component of Palliative Care ................................................................. 86 Figure 7-2 Palliative Architecture as Architecture of Compassion - A concept ......... 86 Figure 7-3 Design Aims of the Project ..................................................................... 87 viii