ABSTRACT
Eighteen case studies are presented indicative of a typology of palliative care built environments in diverse international contexts. Case studies are of four types: medical campus contexts built on the grounds of existing medical centers, autonomous community-based hospice built as freestanding facilities in urban, suburban and rural settings, hospice expressing innovative adaptive use strategies from previously existing facilities, and innovative examples of pediatric hospice architecture. This last category in this chapter of highly illustrated built projects consists of autonomous, freestanding hospice whose clients and philanthropic sponsors tend to allow the architectural designer and landscape architect broader freedoms to experiment. The eighteenth and final case study in this chapter, Robin House, in Balloch, Scotland (2006), is presented in this second edition as a completed, built project. Floor and site plans of each case study are presented.
