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DeCaseris Cancer Institute
Anne Arundel Medical Center 2001 Medical Parkway Annapolis, Maryland
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The butterfly , chosen to visually represent rejuvenation and transformation, is depicted throughout the facility in both photography and sculpture. |
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Project Background:
In building their new medical campus, Anne Arundel Medical Center made patient experience a top priority. The complex was designed to keep patients in close touch with nature. Healing gardens wind around the exterior of the Emergency Room while just beyond the gardens is a serene lily pond enjoyed by visitors walking to the cafeteria or sitting comfortably in the cyber lounge. This lily pond is also the focus of the outdoor cafeteria patio area, allowing diners to view colorful fish through artful glass railings
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Art Program Solution:
Through the use of crystal clear original photography, visual images of nature renewing itself were located throughout the facility. To keep patients close to nature, gardens in full bloom , photographed from the seated patients point of view, were chosen to fill waiting rooms. Wayfinding was enhanced through the depiction of distinctly different garden types in each waiting area. The main corridor leading to the CT Scan and Novalis rooms became a gallery of incredible butterfly images centered on an oversized garden photograph.
Replicated exterior light was introduced in scan rooms through back lit photo ceiling murals, creating a canopy of spring, summer or fall foliage above patients.
Water and landscape images, as seen through windows, provide anxious patients in interior exam rooms with exterior views. |
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Summer Image for backlit photography ceiling panel in CT Scan room Photo by Robin Constable Hanson |
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Images depicting life renewing itself keep patients close to nature while in interior spaces. Photo by Cheryl Richter |
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Art Challenge:
To create an art program that enhanced the Institute’s healing environment and reinforced the life renewing mission of the staff. Addressing the specific needs of cancer patients while continuing the facility’s desire to keep patients in close touch with nature was a mandate. It was imperative that all proposed images depict scenes found in counties served by the Institute. |
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Garden scenes from seated perspectives, surround waiting room visitors. Photo by Dianne Dietrich |
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A series of butterfly photographs provide dramatic corridor focal points. Photo by Jim Hamilton |
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