Center for alternative healing of cancer patient

Abstract

The main aim of this research paper is to establish the criteria for designing an environment targeted at the patient‘s psychology that helps them feel comfortable and at home while combating a debilitating disease like Cancer. This study is directed at the contribution of architects in reducing stress in patients and influences their psychology in a positive way. Cancer is a dreadful disease that affects millions of people all over the world. Cancer knows no political, religious, caste, colour, race boundaries. It affects people from different economic segments and a varied age group. Cancer patients spend a lot of time at hospitals depending on the severity of their disease. The research emphasizes on reducing the stress through built environment of a cancer patient. It mainly aims at developing a concrete relationship between built environments with the reactions of cancer patients. The reduction of stress of this disease through different architectural treatments and principles is the main goal. The stress has an impact on the recovery of such patients. The findings from this research provide evidence that there is a clear link between cancer patient‘s psychology and the built environment. The main conclusions that I seek to draw from this dissertation is attempt to establish the elements of the built environment that can influence a cancer patient‘s psychology and come to a design criteria for such an environment.