Maggie’s Oldham: Treating Patients Through Healthy Materials
Maggie’s Oldham: Treating Patients Through Healthy Materials
- urbanNext, January 13, 2018.
- 1020 words.
- 000400
dRMM, Energy and sustainability, expanding design practices, Low Density, Project, Technology and fabrication
Architecture&environment, Architecture&nature, Comfort, Comfortable environment, Community Facilities, Cross Laminated Wood, Designing Matter, Empowering society, Energetic Approach, Glass, Great Britain, Green, Health, Hospital, Humanity, Light, Manchester, Pioneer techniques, Project, Technological Approach, Timber, UK, Vegetable Garden, Wood
In addition to the central programme of providing free practical, emotional and social support, Maggie’s buildings variously serve as oasis, message bearer and inspiration but have not explicitly addressed the relation between the built environment and causes of cancer. One of the unanswered questions cancer sufferers ask is, ‘What caused it?’ The increasing evidence of cancer in developed countries points toward carcinogenic elements in our food, drink and air, and in material components of our built environment.
2575-5374
Architecture Health Oldham, UK UK
dRMM, Energy and sustainability, expanding design practices, Low Density, Project, Technology and fabrication
Architecture&environment, Architecture&nature, Comfort, Comfortable environment, Community Facilities, Cross Laminated Wood, Designing Matter, Empowering society, Energetic Approach, Glass, Great Britain, Green, Health, Hospital, Humanity, Light, Manchester, Pioneer techniques, Project, Technological Approach, Timber, UK, Vegetable Garden, Wood
In addition to the central programme of providing free practical, emotional and social support, Maggie’s buildings variously serve as oasis, message bearer and inspiration but have not explicitly addressed the relation between the built environment and causes of cancer. One of the unanswered questions cancer sufferers ask is, ‘What caused it?’ The increasing evidence of cancer in developed countries points toward carcinogenic elements in our food, drink and air, and in material components of our built environment.
2575-5374
Architecture Health Oldham, UK UK