KENMORE
KENMORE a design concept for sick children and their families.
The concept is a home away from home and provides vital support, comfort, and respite care for children with life limiting conditions and support for their families. In this centre life limiting is where the child will not live into their adult years and these children range from infant to teenagers.
Their conditions can vary greatly with each child requiring different needs, this demand can be very difficult on families. Therefore, this centre will take over that care so that families can spend quality time with each other and create lasting memories.
CONCEPT DESIGN QUESTIONS
How do we provide an interior space that supports families and their child or children throughout their stay within a health care facility? How does physical surroundings affect emotions, and what is the emotional responses to architecture? How does this affect ones health?
Through identifying many features of the environment that affects our brain and body, how can we design to contribute to healing and a sense of peace in an otherwise non-peaceful place?
Although some of the children that come through this type of centre will not make it past childhood, it is most important to ease what they are going through. The sick children are the first and foremost focus and secondly their families within this design.
Although some of the children that come through this type of centre will not make it past childhood, it is most important to ease what they are going through. The sick children are the first and foremost focus and secondly their families within this design.
The Kenmore Centre will have an understanding of how space and surroundings and something as simple as a window with a view of trees can turn the tide against illness.
Key points within the research includes: seeing and healing, sound and silence, touch and smell, and mazes and labyrinths.
