Condominy

The Youth Project of the Pediatric Cancer section of the IRCCS Foundation, National Cancer Institute of Milan, was created in 2011 by the Bianca Garavaglia Association for adolescent cancer patients with the aim to create a new, specific medical and cultural organizational model that aims at not only dealing with the illness but also the life of the young patients by bringing normalcy, their creativity, strength and beauty into the hospital.

Adolescent cancer patients often experience particularly problematic situations that are not dealt with adequately as regards their clinical and psychological needs. They end up in “no man’s land”, caught between child and adult oncology.

The Condominy artistic project, conceived by an artist, aims to combat the serious physical and social isolation experienced by adolescent cancer patients by building a condominium on a virtual platform composed of various rooms created from their individual concepts of the “ideal room”.

With the desire to transform the stories into reality, or at least to get as close as possible to it, an architects’ studio listens and sensitively evaluates the requests of the young “customers” and tries to provide them with the most adherent and concrete design answers. Through the creation of models, the young patients’ rooms take shape and colors. The description and photos of the rooms are collected in a book.