ARCH 80
CANCER WARD (ONCOLOGY) GRAZ
Architecture Redesign

Architectural redesign

Start of construction: 1993Inauguration: March 11, 1994
1993 - 1994
Auenbruggerplatz 15, 8036 Graz, A
Krankenanstalten GmbH, Graz
Initiated by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hellmut Samonigg
Architect Peter Pelikan

The architectural design of the wing as well as individualisation of the hospital rooms and beds, of the community areas like winter garden with a fountain created a happy and sheltered atmosphere in harmony with nature. A study of the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Oncology, on the environmental influence on emotional experience and the condition of cancer patients came to the conclusion that the reconstruction of an oncologic ward has a significant positive influence on the well-being, the frame of mind, the estimation of course of illness, the compliance and the coping with the disease of the patients.

mehr weniger
  • Brochure: Onkologie, published by Medizinische Universitätsklinik, Onkologie, Graz, 1994
  • Hundertwasser Architektur, Cologne, 1996, p. 315 (c) and ed. 2006, pp. 305 (c), 313
  • P. Restany, Die Macht der Kunst, Hundertwasser - Der Maler-König mit den fünf Häuten, Cologne, 1998, p. 52 (c) and ed. 2018, p. 50 (c)
  • R. Schediwy, Hundertwassers Häuser, Vienna, 1999, pp. 177 (c), 179 (c), 180 (c), 183 (c), 185 (c), 241/242
  • A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, p. 1268 (c)
  • Calendar: Hundertwasser Architektur 2003, teNeues, Kempen