Health & Environment

"By only using natural, sustainable materials and immersing the building in thousands of plants, there was a chance for us to make an extraordinary environment capable of inspiring visitors with hope and perseverance during their difficult health journeys"

Heatherwick on Maggie’s Yorkshire

Contrary to what we might first perceive, environment is not just the physical matter of how space is presented, it is the energy and frequency of how we as humans interact with everything and everyone within a space.

Combining her personable personality and her own fascination with the interconnection of health and space, Catriona undertakes a weekly voluntary position at the Maggie’s Yorkshire as the welcoming role. Maggie’s is a charity that does cancer differently, offering free specialist care that supports people affected by cancer. The organic formed building has been designed by Heatherwick Studio, answering a brief to provide a home away from home that aims to provide respite from the usual clinical environments. She describes the position as her most important and purposeful role to date.