The weight of a cancer diagnosis upon an individual bestows an immeasurable feeling of dread, challenging their sense of stability and connection to the world. My final-year architecture project, The Settlement for Cancer and Health, seeks to address these challenges by proposing a small village living in the security of Newark Castle. This design aspires to create a place of security and healing through a sense of permanence and etherealness. The linear journey through the design is a reflection of one’s life with a beginning and an end. Through this odyssey, visitors of the settlement will engage with nature and their surroundings with the use of sliding partitions. Flexible space being emphasised in the design to encourage people to exercise their own personal ethnographies.