This project seeks to create stability in a utopian urban future by recalibrating social equality in Cairo. The Cairo Cancer Centre is a public healthcare facility that reinstates the historical values for human life that once underpinned Egyptian culture, as a support facility for suffering cancer patients and their families.

In the contextual future of Cairo, this project is envisaged to be the first of many drastically public support buildings designed to release strain on health services while preventing future disease through education and research. There is potential for a community to be borne out of shared struggle, but what is missing is a place to congregate, to in turn remove the stigma associated with cancer in Cairo.

This therapeutic space holds, comforts, and inspires a fight for life, achieving an ‘architecture of hope’ through one big orientation outwards and many little therapy foci inwards. Patients are fighting between fear and tentative hope, between preparing to die and fighting to live. Modern architecture can mirror these complex emotions through design of opposite ends.