The Cancer Research and Treatment Centre in Bogotá, Colombian Architecture, Images
Cancer Research and Treatment Centre, Bogota
Cancer Research Centre in Colombia, design by Rafael de La-Hoz Arquitectos and Construcciones Planificadas
17 Jul 2017
Cancer Research and Treatment Centre
Design: Rafael de La-Hoz Arquitectos and Construcciones Planificadas
Location: Bogotá, Colombia

Based in Bogotá and due for completion in 2020, it will incorporate a research centre and develop a unique care model to cater for the needs of the patients and their families
The Spanish architecture firm Rafael de La-Hoz Arquitectos won the ?Future Healthy Built Environment Project? award at the Design and Health World Congress held in Vienna for the design of the Cancer Research and Treatment Centre in Bogotá (Colombia). The award recognizes projects in design or under construction that acknowledge ?the changing role of the built environment in relation to health and wellbeing of people or local community.? The Cancer Research and Treatment Centre, co-designed by Rafael de La-Hoz Arquitectos and the Colombian firm Construcciones Planificadas, is expected to launch in 2020 and will offer 230 hospital beds, a hotel for the families of the patients and its own research centre in a 100,000-square meters site. It will gather the most innovative techniques for cancer treatment and diagnosis, a centre to search for its cure and spaces specifically designed to make the much-needed family support easie...