New hospital architecture illustrated with the Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Interview with the curators of the exhibition "Building to Heal: New Architecture for Hospitals". New hospital architecture illustrated with the Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The exhibition "Building to Heal: New Architecture for Hospitals" at the TUM Architecture Museum presents an international selection of still rare hospital buildings which support the healing process. The presentation of scientific findings from architectural psychology is intended to stimulate change and to broaden public debate through various different senses. The exhibition catalog says "Architecture which helps heal doesn't make room for the illness, it makes space for those who are ill." What do the projects you've chosen share in common? Tanja C. Vollmer: You'll find "the Healing Seven" in these hospitals. These scientific criteria include Orientation, Odorscape, Soundscape, View and Foresight, Privacy and Withdrawal, Power Points, the Human Scale - and we try to render all these variables spatially tangible during the exhibition visit. Lisa Luksch: We've structured the exhibition based on these criteria and investigated 13 hospitals for exactly these factors.
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