NECS Pavillion

An outdoor healing pavilion for New England Cancer Specialists, with columns arranged like a grove of trees on a reclaimed quarry site at Rock Row.

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CONTEXT

Set within the Healing Garden at New England Cancer Specialists’ Rock Row campus, this outdoor pavilion gives patients, families, and staff a place to step away from treatment and into nature. The site sits at the edge of a former quarry, and the design treats the project as a way of healing that disturbed ground, much like bark grows over an injured tree. Steel columns are arranged like trunks in a forest, with the space between them forming a sheltered glen. Textured panels and small pieces of colored glass cast shifting patterns of light that change with the time of day and the seasons, offering moments of positive distraction. The roughly 2,400-square-foot pavilion includes a partially enclosed healing space, an outdoor demonstration kitchen with a viewing area, and restrooms. It supports meditation, cooking classes, small ceremonies, and gatherings of up to about 150 people. A landscaped berm and stone walls help buffer noise from the nearby highway, and all glass is bird safe.

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