Kerry Chong, who is currently studying at the Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia, entered the Architects for Health’s First Student Health Design Award (2007) with the following submission. For contact please email: kerry1521@hotmail.com
State Cancer Centre
Site response: vision of overwhelming, aging blocks, precariously connected by narrow + constricting corridors. “I didn’t want to create another obnoxious block building but tried to both create a spatial architecture internally while working in harmony with the environment + site”
sculpture
sculptural light
sculptural cues
the ground meets the building as opposed to the building meeting the ground
“where did the ground go?!”
purposeful roof which both shelters and sculpts the interior while providing a public space above ideal for seating, sunbathing, escaping and relaxing as a means of encouraging people to walk through the cancer centre and be a part of it, instead of scared of it
building adaptability – permanent + temporary structures
view of / view from
using landscape to connect the existing + disparate blocks on the site in a new state of hybridity – a continuation of existing topography to avoid entering into visual competition with the dominant surrounding structures while not simply mimicking them
joyful + intriguing spaces
The Architects for Health
First Student Health Design Award
was sponsored by
