The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, April 16, 1987, Image 3

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for AIDS victims to die in peace
By Tracy Staton
Reporter
Designing a hospital for AIDS
patients presented an atypical
challenge to Texas A&M student
David Liao.
“Most hospitals are places to
get well, but an AIDS hospital is a
place to die,” Liao said.
“Since curing is impossible, I
had to emphasize the caring.”
Liao’s concern for the unique
problems of people with acquired
immune deficiency syndrome
spurred him to design a facility
solely for patients with the dis
ease.
This project ——————
is Liao’s final
study for a
master’s de
gree in ar
chitecture.
“No hospital
has been built
especially for
AIDS p a -
tients,” Liao
said. “Existing
facilities have
been remod-
eled to accom
modate them, but those facilities
cannot completely satisfy their
needs.”
He approached the project
with the intention of creating a
home-like atmosphere in the
hospital. Each patient’s room also
has space for one family mem
ber, so relatives can spend active,
productive time with the patient.
Liao said that this opportunity
helps alleviate the feeling of iso
lation patients usually experi
ence.
“I wanted to put the facility on
a human scale,” he said. “I broke
the hospital into several different
buildings, all with easy access to
nature.”
Nature played an important
role in Liao’s design. He chose a
heavily wooded site overlooking
Lake Austin, and the hospital
was integrated with the environ
ment.
Interior gardens and natural
lighting also contribute to the de
sign.
T wanted to avoid a feeling of
confinement or abandonment
for the patient,” Liao said. “My
design lightens the ‘institutional
image’ to create a pleasant atmo
sphere.”
Liao, whose specialization is in
“Most hospitals are
places to get well, but
an AIDS hospital is a
place to die. ... I had to
emphasize the caring. ”
— David Liao, graduate
student and AIDS
hospital designer
health facili
ties, has expe
rience working
with institu
tions.
The semes
ter-long pro
ject involved
intense re
search. Liao
traveled to
New York in
December to
meet with Dr.
Gerald H .
Friedland, his medical consultant
for the design. Friedland is the
leader of an AIDS care team at
Montefiore Medical Center in
New York City and was featured
on the cover of Newsweek in
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In the Newsweek interview,
Friedland said that renovating
hospitals is a more feasible op
tion than constructing an entirely
new facility for AIDS patients.
He cited maintenance expenses
and escalating salaries as reasons
that no institute would want to
build a new hospital.
Through his research, Liao
found that isolating AIDS pa
tients can reduce in-patient costs
by streamlining care. He also dis-
Photo by Tracy Staton
David Liao, a Texas A&M graduate student in architecture, sets up a
model of the hospital he designed to serve AIDS patients.
covered certain difficulties inher
ent in dealing with these patients,
such as some of the staff experi
encing emotional problems.
He addressed these problems
in his design by creating retreat
areas so the staff can escape from
depressing situations.
He also noted that in some
hospitals, AIDS patients are ac
cepted only if they meet the hos
pital’s research needs. In Liao’s
design, the patients spend their
terminal days comfortably, in
stead of being treated like an ex
periment.
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By Robert Morris
Staff Writer
Contrary to popular belief, a
Texas A&M biochemistry professor
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Houston woman gets life
for helping murder parents
HOUSTON (AP) — A woman
convicted of helping her former
boyfriend kill her sleeping parents
was sentenced Wednesday to two
concurrent life prison terms.
Cynthia Campbell Ray, 30, was
convicted Tuesday of two counts of
murder for convincing David Duval
West to kill her parents in their
Houston home on June 19, 1982.
Jurors in State District Judge A.D.
Azios’ court reconvened Wednesday
in the trial’s punishment phase and
deliberated three hours before rec
ommending the two concurrent life
terms, a sentence Azios then insti
tuted.
The trial was Ray’s second. The
first one ended in a mistrial when a
jury could not reach a verdict after
several days of deliberations.
West, who got a life sentence in
exchange for his testimony, told a
jury how Ray opened the door and
he shot her sleeping parents.
Defense lawyers rested their case
Monday without putting Ray on the
witness stand.
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