Respites 2.0 – Nature-centric hospice design challenge

Submission: October 4, 2022
Registration: October 3, 2022
Language: English
Location: Arkansas City, United States
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Open

 

The architecture competition brief calls for a design of a nature-centric hospice design, which is focused on creating and facilitating human nature connected through architecture. The aim of the competition is to come up with unique design solutions for a hospice that creatively blurs the borders between interior and exterior by offering a direct connection between them.

Innovating the concept and idea of a hospice care space, by imagining it beyond as a terminally ill care space, but as a place that offers relief and the opportunity to reconnect with oneself and nature.

Inclusion of different aspects of design strategies that will aid and facilitate the connection of nature, through green, biophilic architectural design strategies.

This design should redefine the way we look at palliative care in a positive and refined manner, thus changing our perception of these spaces and also towards how we respond to them.

Hospice design plays a fundamental role in how the inhabitants, and the patients respond and get affected during the last moments at the centre. People during their final days, often crave for connection to nature, to natural environments, as the cycle of life completes back to its roots.

Often due to the severity of their ailments and for medical reasons they spend most of their time inside the buildings than outside. Such situations create a clear disconnect between the inhabitants and nature, making it harder for the inhabitants to experience recovery or relief.

Nature has been said to work as a healing aspect in various different situations; the mere presence of nature in the surroundings can create a great impact on inhabitants’ well-being. The need for connection between nature provides an opportunity for recovery, and also relief, relaxation and a stress-free environment.

Considering the concerns and impacts nature has on the people in hospices, through what architectural design strategies can a stress-free connection be achieved successfully? 

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