Maggie’s Oldham: Treating Patients Through Healthy Materials

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.