Today I went to visit The Moores UCSD Cancer Center. I was told by a friend to go check it out while I am in San Diego for winter break. Going to La Jolla for research can be really delightful. It can be really cerine in so many ways. It offers many state of the art buldings along with some great recreation. Aside all of that, I need to focus on my thesis research. So, I went and found it quite easily. We got there at 5 pm and there was no patients around. It was great to walk around with nobody around. I was able to take pictures of areas like the theater, conference room and lobbies.
After a long semester of learning the basics of what a medical clinic has to offer, I was able to point out every single element of the visitable program in front of me. A lobby three stories high, columns every ten feet along the front of the building. It was definitely is steel frame building. The materials we all stone, wood and glass. A courtyard accessible to everyone, including patients. Natural lighting was used in every way possible to the point where hallways are used to light interior offices with the used of translucent materials and clear stories. The articulation in plan is also seen in elevation and I think this is why this building works in its surrounding environment. The program is easy to understand to and get around and its a clear understanding from public, semipublic and private.
Many mental notes and pictures are now with me to help me with my thesis and hope to find many more places that I can be inspired from before I begin this endeavor.

The Moores UCSD Cancer Center was founded in 1979. The Center is one of just 39 in the United States to hold a National Cancer Institute (NCI) designation as a Comprehensive Cancer Center. As such, it ranks among the top centers in the nation conducting basic and clinical cancer research, providing advanced patient care and serving the community through outreach and education programs.

Occupation : Student

Occupation : Student
I been a full time student for about two years now. I pretty much stopped looking for a job as soon as school got more demanding. I worked as a freelance makeup artist but even that looks outdated on my resume. I cross my fingers as graduation gets closer, finding a job might be a little harder than I'd imagined. I joined grad school thinking that I would ride out the recession, but oh my, it's not over yet and school soon will be over. Now, my interest lays on a very lucrative career. I'm not talking about architecture alone but I'm talking about "medical architecture" and for what I hear, that line of work is doing pretty good through this recession. Now, this interest was developed by a life experience that changed my life. The illness of my father and the realization that even though ADA is on his side, design in hospitals and clinics can be WAY better. I see it as a puzzle. OSHPD and UBC give you a set of rules, with them come limitations. Now it's up to me to make it work and make the best design from it. Sounds simple right?!? Not, really. But, I guess it will all start with that one opportunity that will change my employment status from student to architect. And just like this, I will see how my idea of changing the world might come about someday. For now my occupation is student.


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