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2012

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Children's Cancer And Transplant Hospital: A Micro Town Within A Bubble, Kimia Samimi Jan 2012

Children's Cancer And Transplant Hospital: A Micro Town Within A Bubble, Kimia Samimi

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

As the greatest considerations in health-care design have traditionally been functional —hygiene, efficiency, and flexibility for changing technology— hospitals have evolved to become dehumanizing spaces. In this thesis two specific groups of chronically ill children who have among the longest inpatient stays are studied: cancer and organ transplant patients. Being under immunosuppressive drugs, these children are physically vulnerable thus are kept completely isolated. These long stays and isolation can be very depressing for them.

This thesis undertakes the challenge of designing a fully isolated space that doesn’t feel like one or in other words “a micro-town within a bubble”. The …


Eastern Michigan University Undergraduate Catalog, 2012-2013, Office Of The Registrar Jan 2012

Eastern Michigan University Undergraduate Catalog, 2012-2013, Office Of The Registrar

Undergraduate Catalogs

No abstract provided.


Eastern Michigan University Undergraduate Catalog, 2012-2013, Office Of The Registrar Jan 2012

Eastern Michigan University Undergraduate Catalog, 2012-2013, Office Of The Registrar

Undergraduate Catalogs

No abstract provided.


Eastern Ichigan University Graduate Catalog, 2012-2013, Office Of The Registrar Jan 2012

Eastern Ichigan University Graduate Catalog, 2012-2013, Office Of The Registrar

Graduate Catalogs

No abstract provided.