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"Architecture can not be cured but can contribute to the welfare of patients and indirectly help their improvement," says the student of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena Maria Perez, condensing the essence of the project that has completed the degree in architecture UPCT, a cancer center "that nation spaces in the treatment of cancer patients."
The design, adapted to the special needs of these patients and their treatments, is designed as an annex to the hospital of Santa Lucia in Cartagena, and is sized to the average twenty weekly earnings that are made in its existing plant oncology.
Would have single rooms for patients and rest areas for their family, own cafeteria and expansion areas for adapted sports activities, such as yoga or music therapy.
The center would be linked to the rest of the hospital through one of its courtyards and against the aseptic hospital plants, would be "in touch with nature, with the inclusion of vegetation in outdoor areas and natural lighting and ventilation all the rooms, "says the student.
"All spaces have given the status of these patients photosensitive sunscreen," says the young architect.
The student made the design in collaboration with the oncologist at the hospital Maria Jose Martinez Ortiz and showed the model and final designs to those responsible for St. Lucia.
"They were interested in the project because in a general hospital are missing more personalized spaces," he recalls.
Inspired by the British Maggie's Centres, where it provides assistance to those affected by cancer, the project of the student UPCT "is an idea for future construction or renovations of hospitals," he adds.
"In Spain the adult cancer has been neglected in interventions in cancer enclosures so far focused only on the child patients, when the disease affects without distinction to young and old," he says.
Precisely, Maria Perez, his classmate David Hernandez and teachers UPCT José María López and Edith Aroca won in July the prize of the College of Architects and the Aladina Foundation for its design to suit the area of ​​oncology pediatric hospital Virgen de Arrixaca.
Aroca Lopez and went, with Joaquín Contreras and Ricardo Carcelén, guardians of the final degree about the Center for Saint Lucia.
Source: UPCT
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