Posted on 8/20/2019
Beyond programming decisions, the project team on the new Baptist MD Anderson Cancer Center in Jacksonville, Fla., devoted a lot of time to creating an interior environment that’s calming and welcoming. Leigh Walker, senior interior designer with FreemanWhite, a Haskell Company (Charlotte, N.C.), which provided interior design services on the project, found herself drawing on personal experience in that regard. She received a cancer diagnosis about six months before starting work on the project.
“That experience took my thinking about what we were doing within the center, and why, to a whole new level,” Walker says. “I found myself thinking, well, I had this experience, and this is how I felt, and here’s how that could possibly be reflected in the design.”
For example, she noted that because a cancer diagnosis and treatment is a stressful experience, “coming ...