Improving the patient experience is one of the primary objectives of the architects behind Scotland’s newest, hi-tech cancer treatment centre but, as Ray Philpott reveals, taking an unconventional design approach pays dividends
F
rom an architectural perspective, designing a radiother- apy-based cancer treatment centre is an inherently challenging task.
On one hand, you have multi-million pound, hi-tech linear
accelerators – used for the radiotherapy treatment – housed in radiation-proof bunkers made from thousands of tonnes of in-situ concrete. And on the other, in the same building, you have to create a calming and aesthetically pleasant environment that
reassures and meets the practical needs of potentially highly anxious patients. Marrying these two apparently conflicting, essential
elements in a single building certainly exercised minds at Keppie Design when the practice was invited to design the state-of-the-art Lanarkshire Beatson Satellite Radiotherapy Centre in the West of Scotland. The task was made even harder thanks to an enclosed site that is framed by existing hospital buildings on two sides and
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