Good Trip
Building Pleasures in Quadronno Cancer Center
N.H. Nguyen (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
O. Caso – Mentor (TU Delft - Building Knowledge)
M. Heijman – Mentor (TU Delft - Teachers of Practice)
J.A. van de Voort – Mentor (TU Delft - Teachers of Practice / AE+T)
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Abstract
Good Trip proposes a cancer care center for Quadronno district in Milan.
Good Trip seeks to investigate hospital architecture through the lens of pleasure. Using the real-world Clinica La Madonnina as the starting point, the research questions normative models of healthcare and the perpetuating bigness in medical institutions prevalent across European cities. In these derived hospitals, patients become bodies moved along Kafkaesque corridors, stigmatized and stripped off joy of living. Rejuvenated interest in hospitals post-Covid 19 and rising cancer incidences linked with the dawn of super-aged societies in Europe urge a radical redefining of cancer care buildings, from curing to caring.
Good Trip dwells on the generic-specific conflict between the medical briefs and healthcare spaces. The research-by-design seeks to formalize pleasure in hospital’s Third Place - the corridor - through intimacy, domesticity, and non-normative social engagement while reflecting on the hospital as both a healthcare and socio-cultural infrastructure within the city.