PROPER BUILDING PLACEMENT FOR PALLIATIVE CARE FOR TERMINALLY ILL PATIENTS

Abstract

The guidelines for building placement as a quasi- hospital with an area for palliative
care for terminally ill patients as designed to provide an environment that is most conducive to
terminally ill patients covering all aspects whether physical, mental, social, and spiritual, by
using the naturalness and religious rituals that provide both peace, tranquility and soothe the
mind in designing architectural elements; using curves to create humility, and horizontal lines
to convey stillness for building placement to embrace the mind of terminally ill patien