Hospice in Shinfuji

Shizuoka, Japan
Photo © Naoomi Kurozumi
Photo © Naoomi Kurozumi
Photo © Naoomi Kurozumi
Photo © Naoomi Kurozumi
Photo © Naoomi Kurozumi
Photo © Naoomi Kurozumi
Photo © Naoomi Kurozumi
Photo © Naoomi Kurozumi
Photo © Naoomi Kurozumi
Photo © Naoomi Kurozumi
Photo © Naoomi Kurozumi
Photo © Naoomi Kurozumi
Photo © Naoomi Kurozumi
Photo © Naoomi Kurozumi
Photo © Naoomi Kurozumi
Drawing © Yamazaki Kentaro Design Workshop
Drawing © Yamazaki Kentaro Design Workshop
Architects
Yamazaki Kentaro Design Workshop
Location
Shizuoka, Japan
Year
2020

This hospice facility plays an intermediate role between a home and a hospital, providing palliative care for terminally-ill cancer patients. In addition to a treatment facility, we imagined a hospice like a home. In other words, we sought to create a more quotidian atmosphere, rather than the “isolation” typical of hospitals. Arranged to avoid the existing trees in the site, the building consists of a compact hospital room and nurses’ station connected by a corridor that imparts sequential continuity to the space and serves as a place for patients to spend time with family and friends.

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