Newsletter of the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University
On May 4, Texas A&M architecture students presented design concepts for a new National Taiwan University Cancer Center and Proton Center at the HKS Inc. headquarters in Dallas. Photos of the presentation are posted on the HKS website at images.hksinc.com
Eleven students in four teams worked with architects from HKS to create designs for the 1.3 million square foot, 500-bed cancer center.
When open, the center will offer proton therapy in four rotating beam rooms, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, a surgery department with 12 operating rooms, bone marrow transplant units, an outpatient clinic, a stem cell transplant center and a preventative medicine center. The facility will provide Taiwan’s most advanced cancer treatment services.
The students worked under the direction of George Mann, holder of the Skaggs-Sprague Endowed Chair in Health Facilities Design; Joseph McGraw, professor emeritus; Kazuhiko Okamoto, an assistant professor from the University of Tokyo and Kauma Corporation visiting scholar; and Ruka Okamoto, a visiting scholar.
HKS principals Ron Skaggs and Joe Sprague collaborated with the students throughout the semester, as did designers Laurence Chiang, Shannon Kraus, Alex Ling, Naresh Mathur and Alex Wang.
Students also worked with Taipei architectural firm J.J. Pan & Partners.
For more pictures, see a related archone. story.
- Posted: June 17, 2009 -
