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1	Children's Cancer and Transplant Hospital: a Micro Town within a Bubble Samimi, Kimia 01 January 2012 (has links) (PDF) 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 author intends to achieve this goal through strong visual connections, natural lighting, and creative space planning. Children’s hospital Hospital Cancer Organ Transplant Micro Town Patient Visual connection Pittsfield Isolation Architectural Engineering Cognition and Perception Interior Architecture Movement and Mind-Body Therapies Other Mental and Social Health Therapeutics