Patients at the Oncology Clinic and Infusion Suite spend as much as eight hours at a time at the infusion stations. Thus, it is important to create, as much as possible, an environment that fosters comfort and calm. Conceived as pods, the space for each infusion station is defined in two ways: 1) curved and sloped half-walls that offer patients a measure of privacy while allowing supervision from the nurses’ station and 2) cylindrical soffits – distinguished from the dark, slatted-wood ceiling through the use of white gypsum board – that house multiple types of ambient and spotlighting suitable for rest or reading.
