Health-care facilities typically use isolation as a strategy for dealing with infection control, creating buildings that work as sets of departments closed off from one another. The new Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute, however, emphasizes integration — in terms of both flow and function. Embodying the client’s philosophy of “translational medicine,” which brings together cancer research and treatment, the 182,000-square-foot building provides a series of indoor and outdoor spaces that encourage interaction — among different parts of the medical community, between patients and doctors, and between patients and their families.
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