Size
16,690-SF new construction

Services
Architecture
Interior Design

Counseling and education center for cancer patients and their families

The Inova Health System’s Life with Cancer program aims to help enhance quality of life by providing free education, information and support to cancer patients and their families.

Wilmot Sanz designed the Family Center as a new home for this program. Located in Fairfax, Virginia, this stand-alone facility was designed with a strong residential character to provide a non-clinical, nurturing environment. The natural setting for the center is enhanced by landscaped healing gardens and areas for outdoor functions.

Within the 16,690-SF building’s two stories and basement are rooms for art therapy, meditation, counseling, reading, exercise, diet education, digital information resources and community meeting spaces. There are also rooms for the popular Complimentary Therapy programs.

Completed in early 2009, Inova’s Life with Cancer Family Center consolidates the program’s functions and facilitates its goal of helping people face the many challenges of cancer.