Parscale Group

Striving to advance a patient-centered treatment model, Amarillo’s Panhandle Cancer Care Center envisions a healing environment that provides access to daylight, views of nature, and material richness throughout.
Organized into distinct department blocks, the plan offers vistas to the exterior along each circulation path as patients and the care team alike move through their treatment journey.
Like the escarpments of the Llano Estacado on which Amarillo sits, the Cancer Care Center provides relief both from the featureless High Plains landscape, and the challenges of cancer treatment.
A rough-faced masonry exterior gives way to an interior of undulating wood panel ceilings highlighted by clerestory windows that wash the space with natural daylight.

Temporarily visible on the exterior, not feasible to leave exposed in the Texas weather - Cross-laminated timber (CLT) is a large-scale, prefabricated, solid engineered wood panel. Lightweight yet very strong, with superior acoustic, fire, seismic and thermal performance, CLT is also fast and easy to install, generating almost no waste onsite. CLT offers design flexibility and low environmental impacts. For these reasons, cross-laminated timber is proving to be a highly advantageous alternative to conventional materials like concrete, masonry or steel, especially in multifamily and commercial construction. Note the warm natural interiors of the Western Tech Systems future HQ and distribution facility. It’s gonna be beautiful.