Mariam Alothman + Vicente Nabuco

Our thesis delves into the intricate relationship between accessibility and the interplay of rooms and landscapes, proposing mobility within the network of room accessibility as the key to the imminent transformation in healthcare architecture. We assert landscape's pivotal role as a participant in healthcare as the core of our design paradigm, resulting in a new spatial organization and hierarchy throughout our expansion. Utilizing tangents to organize spatial awareness, we generate new geometries infused with landscape properties, fostering in-between spaces that prioritize patient well-being. These tangents, formed through angles of circles and connecting lines, become volumetric properties, creating a collection of dimensional landscapes used throughout our project. These landscapes facilitate pathways, mounds, and planters dedicated to access and movement. Accessibility operates across multiple mobility scales, with patient room typologies featuring distinct access points tailored to patients and medical staff, considering wheelchair, pharmacy cart, and urgent care mobility. Urgent care rooms directly linked to an urgent mobile route maximize accessibility, while rooms for long-term patients enable seamless movement between interior and exterior spaces, fostering a patient-environment relationship. Our curved massing geometry maximizes views, resulting in pockets of courtyards that invite the landscape into the interior.