Hannah Resnick
hresnick@ltu.edu hannahresn@aol.com Website LinkedInHannah is a senior Interior Design student at Lawrence Technological University. She was also a member of the women's reserve volleyball team and is currently a student member of IIDA. She is passionate about the correlation between physical and mental health and the space you are physically in, leading her to want to redesign spaces to make people feel calm and comfortable in them. In the future she would like to apply this thinking to healthcare or education settings, the dream being to be able to make the spaces people have to be in better and more comfortable for them.
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Pediatric Cancer Center
MajorInterior Design [BS]
DescriptionThe goal of the project is to rethink how a pediatric cancer center can embrace the patients being kids while providing the necessary treatments to children with cancer. With the inclined rate of kids being diagnosed with cancer, the urgency of redesigning these centers is more apparent. When these kids go for treatments, they are stuck inside these buildings for hours, days, even weeks at a time. Their mental and physical health are already negatively affected by their disease, their environments shouldn’t negatively contribute to it. The importance of the ages of this vulnerable population was a driving factor of this project because regardless of the treatment that is needed, it is important to embrace the idea that they are still kids and want to play and have fun. Through research, it was found that these kids are going through all different energy, pain, and social levels, and each child needs to be accommodated for. The thesis statement that captures this project is as follows, Experiencing childhood normalcy while providing home-like sanitary environments and youthful communal safe spaces is shown to increase levels of healing and shorten recovery time of pediatric cancer patients. The concept statement for this center that was driven by the thesis is as follows, creating a magical and whimsical experience while using soft yet playful colors, and designing around a small human scale that provides quiet individual spaces coexisting with lively community spaces creates playful environments that are flexible to each child's circumstances.