The hospital has its own logic and the structure subordinate to it - in order to "think" such space, make it a comfortable for the child, you need to take into account the many nuances. We tell how overseas designers and architects are coping with this task for three projects implemented in the UK.
British designer Morag Meersko is well known for his love for bright colors - For whatever it fell, it turns out to be alive and emotionally. The Design Project of the Children's Hospital in Sheffield did not exception, only here with flowers had to work especially accurately: first, the space should not irritate children with autism, and secondly, it should be comfortable not only for kids, but also for the children of the senior age. The main task of the architect was to give hospital chambers more homemade. Meyersko designed forty-six bedrooms, bathrooms and hols for sharing. It did not change it: the space turned out to be multicolored, but not bright - muffled tones perform the same function as saturated, but at the same time the sensitive children's mind is not annoyed.
In addition, it is important in the hospital environment so that everything remains sterile, which means easily and cleaned. Mayersko solves this task with the help of plastic laminate. Wooden panels in the chambers are also sealed and wash in the same way as the walls. The company-producer of paper-layered plastic Formica helped the designer's idea. Their panels perform one more important function - hide medical equipment, wires and cables. This allows you to make space more comfortable, suitable for a long stay in it in it.
Morag Meerso interior designerAlthough the chambers are intended for children, I did not want them to look childish. Instead, I tried to make them comfortable and such that would like the children of different ages and remained comfortable for their parents visiting them, "I wanted to just make a room in which everyone would be fine. The most difficult was to print on the laminate wooden panels of clean, present color. Due to the peculiarities of production, it was not easy, and the process took the year. As a result, everything turned out, and the woody warmth managed to save.
The British architectural bureau KEPPIE in working on a project of a children's hospital in Glasgow put the same task - to make space comfortable for a long stay in him and their parents. Campus designed by order of the Ronald McDonald House charitable organization is intended to ensure that parents can live here with their children while treating treatment. Bedrooms, relaxation rooms, kitchen and gaming room - everything, according to architects, should resemble a house. Keppie concentrated on the layout of the building and its design. Two spacious courtyards on both sides of the central building must remind children to the playground for games near the house, and the material selected for construction - rough white brick - Rodnith the hospital with a rural house. To achieve more similarities with a private house, architects used rectangular erkers, multifaceted protrusions with windows in the building wall.
The interior corresponds to the facade: natural materials, muted tones and accurate detail - all this creates an image of a comfortable home-commune.
David Ross representative Keppie Design in GlasgowThe hospital has its own logic and function, our task was to preserve them, but to get away from unpleasant associations, which usually cause health categories. The structure has a simple and strict facade, but at the same time does not look like a hospital. Buildings we joined each other with spacious corridors, windows that go to the courtyard. The courtyard also protects against the noise of the rods of Govan Road buses and screaming ambulances. It is a great honor for us - to work on a project for children who are experiencing such a difficult period of their lives. In this case, the design should be purely humanistic principles - trying to make hospital space as much as possible.
Designers of London Jason Bruges Studio found a simpler way to transform the hospital. For a children's hospice for Great-Ormond Street, they implemented the Nature Trail interactive project, which should smooth out the unpleasant impressions of the child from visiting the operating room. On the wall in the corridor, designers posted a large digital panel, depicting forest inhabitants: hotels, heels, birds and frogs. 72 000 LED elements were integrated into the order, which bezed in different sequences, force forests to occur on the wallpaper and seem to run on the wall of the wall - all the designers came up with 70 pictures. All of them are located at different levels, to be visible both small and older children.
Jason Brajes creator of interactive architectural integrations, founder of Jason Bruges Studio"Natural trail" is the road for which a small patient makes his trip on the way to operating room: so we wanted to distract it and calm it. The walls are converted to the canvas, on which the forest beings come to life. They protrude through the trees and foliage and follow the child. To create interactive animations, we used 70 LED panels with different animals and a total of 72,000 LEDs.
In the picture: Design of the Reception Zone in the Children's Medical Center
The design of the Children's Medical Center is the very case when it is required to combine the experience of public institutions and an approach applied to the interiors of rooms for kids. Friendliness, convenience and security are the main criteria for which it is necessary to navigate with the arrangement of therapeutic and wellness institutions for children. It is important to understand that for kids a visit to a doctor is associated with various fears. To visit the healthcare institution did not provoke hysterics and protests, designers seek to create a cozy home atmosphere in medical centers. Let for a kid a visit to the doctor will turn into a kind of game.
Figure: Reception of the Reception Zone in the Children's Medical Center
The design zone of the reception of the Children's Medical Center performs, above all, the presentation function. The visitor must immediately understand where the administrator's rack is. The ideal is considered the design of the medical center, which already at the entrance inspires visitors to confidence. Patients must be confident that they are waiting for first-class service and treatment in accordance with modern technologies. Agree that the reception area decorated in the spirit of the Soviet Hospital is unlikely to cope with such tasks. In the recent interior project of the Children's Medical Center, Olga Kondratov Studio Designers decided to issue an administrator's rack in sea style. Reminded with chalk pattern on the asphalt classics at the entrance bring the element of the game in the design. And the administrator rack, stylized under the shipboard, creates adventure motifs. In the design zone of the reception, simple, but high-quality decoration Materials: tree, concrete, brick. This finish is characterized by high wear resistance, which is especially important for premises with high permeability. For the interior, a beige-brown gamma was chosen, diluted with blue accents. The mustard armcha installed next to the column creates an additional place to expect.
And here is another example of the interior of the reception area in the Children's Medical Center. White color base here is diluted with juicy green paints. The wall painting with the image of the protected forest creates a soothing atmosphere. Interesting solution - Built-in white cabinet in the form of a house, which becomes part of the art composition.
In the photo: the design of the game area in the Children's Medical Center
Game in the Children's Medical Center is a necessity, not an excess. Here, children will always find something to do while adults communicate with the doctor, are waiting for the results of the studies. The design presented in the photo game in the medical center is an example of successful zoning. Please note that the transparent partition is separated from the waiting area. Thanks to this, the parent will be able to be in the room for expectation, watch his child. The game is divided by sports section With a Swedish wall, rope and mate and a zone for creativity, where children's tables and chairs are installed. The racks in the shape of a house are in charge of books, toys and objects for creativity. On white brick wall There is a place for children's drawings. The colorastic base, selected for this design project, is characterized by neutrality. Juicy green shades revolve bright monochrome space.
Figure: Interior of the expectation zone in the Children's Medical Center
The design of the waiting area in the Children's Medical Center, the project of which was developed in the Olga Kondhatech studio, resolved in a modern style. Brickwork On the wall introduces the loof motifs that are supported by ceiling beams. The purpose of the premises implies focusing on comfortable areas for recreation. Therefore, the main attention was paid to finding a convenient and comfortable search. soft furniture. The mustard and blue chairs in the spirit of the 60s revitalize the space where the shades of a natural tree dominate.
In the photo: the first version of the interior of the bathroom in the Children's Medical Center
In the interior of the bathroom in the Children's Medical Center, you can afford various colorful experiments. For convenience, it is worth installing not only standard plumbing, but also a children's toilet. In order for the kids to be more convenient to wash the handles, the sink can be fixed at a low level.
In the photo: In the second interior of the bathroom in the Children's Medical Center, light green tones are used
For the interior of the bathroom in the Children's Medical Center, Olga Kondratov Studio Designers offered two options for design. The first solution with the use of brown-blue shades is interesting to its wall painting with seagulls. In the second version of the interior of the bathroom in the Children's Medical Center, laminate or parquet in the floor decoration is replaced by the tile. Light green tones are dominated here, and the drawings on the walls seem to be borrowed from the pages of a children's book.
So, for the design of the medical center for children, the following features are characterized:
It is difficult to treat the child when he is afraid of a doctor and hospital room. Interior design of children's dentistry Matsumoto Pediatric Dental Clinic in Tokyo, District Matsumoto, full of good animals and wait for the line in the game room. This is done so that the kids feel free.
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For small patients and their parents, a special corner has been created. Under the bench boxes with toys. Funny animals entertain the child and reassure.
On the shirma of glass contours of trees and animals in full size. The combination of light wood and lightweight color is soothing.
Cabinets are separated by partitions and are part of a large room. From small cabinets in the clinic refused. A closed space can scare a child.
The built-in wardrobe is almost invisible thanks to the applique of plywood in the form of a barrel and branches that distracts the view.
A monitor hangs high on the wall on the wall. Its position is designed so that a small patient can be comfortable to watch cartoons that constantly show.
Additional lighting in the form of powerful lamps is fixed on a high adjustable tripod.
One of the walls has a lot of holes in which merry and nimble worms are supervised. Wall decor is diverse and fabulous.
Matsumoto Pediatric Dental Clinic Polyclinic Facade Polyclinic is painted white paint animals and birds silhouettes walking between trees. Above the name of the hospital. On the door time work.
The smallest tries to take in the office with a glass partition. Then the child can see the waiting for his mother and feels more confident.
Not all the initiatives of volunteers can be easily classified by type of volunteering. For example, the creators of the project "Cheerful Corridor" call themselves artistic social volunteers. About how a group of volunteers decided to give bright paints to the walls of children's hospitals, in the material of the Special Project "Year of Volunteer".
The history of the project "The Cheerful Corridor" began in 2012, when the Board of Trustees of the Morozov Hospital decided to invite artists for painting walls in two offices. The usual monophonic walls decided to turn into beautiful and bright to enhance the mood and make the stay of small patients in the hospital more comfortable and joyful. First, no one thought about a full-fledged volunteer project, just wanted to create a space comfortable in the hospital for children.
At the same time, at the end of 2012, the first post about the search for volunteers for painting the walls of the hospital was published for the New Year holidays on social networks. About 20 people responded to Clence, 15 volunteers got directly until the walls were painted. Among them is an artist Anna Rumyantseva, who later became one of the founders of the project "Merry Corridor".
"We broke up into two groups (according to branches) and worked all the holidays. By the end of the New Year holidays, one of the offices was painted, and we began to come together in the second office. And when it all ended, we had a small group of people interested in In the continuation of the murals of the walls in children's hospitals, "recalls Anna Rumyantseva.
Participant of the Initiative Group of the Project "Cheerful Corridor" Elena Filimonova
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First, on the project, only the painting of the walls of the Morozov hospital was assumed, but then the volunteers joke, there all the walls ended, and the project began to expand.
"We are with a charity foundation" Savablik ", with whom they collaborated at the time, turned to the Department of Health with a proposal of participation in our project and other hospitals in Moscow. The department helped us a lot, informed medical institutions and organizing a meeting with interested governing faces of these institutions" , "Says the artist, a participant in the initiative group of" Merry Corridor "Elena Filimonova.
With each new painting, the project was gaining popularity and attracted more and more medical institutions. In the "merry corridor" try not to deny paintings hospitals, but in order for volunteers to draw, some criteria should be observed. For example, it is necessary that the walls are repaired and the paint does not appear with them.
Member of the initiative group of the project "Cheerful Corridor" Olga Stemeva
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"Also, the leadership of the hospital should allocate our premises for storing paints, brushes and other tools and inventory," says Elena Filimonova.
The painting of a large hospital branch, depending on the complexity, can take from six months to a year. Now, as the project organizers tell, a whole queue has been lined up on the painting of the walls. But, perhaps, quite soon, the project volunteers will be able to paint the walls simultaneously immediately in several hospitals.
© Photo Provided by the project "Cheerful Corridor"
© Photo Provided by the project "Cheerful Corridor"
Recently, the project entered the Union of Volunteer Organizations and Movements (Code) and thereby gained legal status and new opportunities, in particular to attract donations.
"All this gives us a reason to hope that in the near future, the" cheerful corridor "will be able to simultaneously make painting in several hospitals and our" queue "will move much faster. The Code will also offer us cooperation with the institutions in which other volunteer projects are being implemented", - Elena Filimonova said.
While the project's geography is mainly limited to Moscow and the closest near Moscow. But there are cases of cooperation with medical institutions from other regions.
© Photo Provided by the project "Cheerful Corridor"Volunteers of the project "Cheerful Corridor"
© Photo Provided by the project "Cheerful Corridor"
"In 2016, we collaborated with the charity foundation" Livi! ", Who, inspired by the activities of the" Merry Corridor ", decided to paint the walls of the oncological branch of the Tula regional hospital. And at some point, the guys called us to help, realizing what they needed" Powerful experienced landing land, in order to advance and successfully finish the work, "said Anna Rumyantsev.
The project activity over the past five years has inspired caring people from all over Russia, and now in the Smolensk region, Bryansk, Samara, in the Urals volunteers also paint hospital walls.
During the painting of the very first objects, the style of the "cheerful corridor" has not yet been formed, and pictures in different techniques could have appeared on the neighboring walls. But gradually the project participants came to the principle of coloring by numbers. When drawing, you need to paint the circled piece of the wall with a certain color. This style of painting is considered the most suitable for mass painting, and even those volunteers who absolutely do not know how to draw in painting.
Any participant in this process feels that it is attached to the beauty and benefits that there is also his work in this wonderful painted wall, but they look such walls as painted by a professional artist in a plane style. Artists prepare in advance the wall for painting, breaking it into pieces, like a batik or mosaic, where every piece will be painted with its color, "the artist says, participant in the initiative group Olga Stemeva.
for volunteers "Merry Corridor" there are no age limitations. Schoolchildren with students, and older people, and even the smallest participants take part in the project.
© Photo Provided by the project "Cheerful Corridor"Volunteers of the project "Cheerful Corridor"
© Photo Provided by the project "Cheerful Corridor"
"Once my seven-year-old Roma nephew arrived in painting. He watched the sketches and took a living participation in their development. He was one of the main things in the focus group of kids! And he advised to add cars and transport to the cartoons, because Boys it will be very interesting. And when the drawings were applied on the walls, Roma with trembling and joy painted his piece, "recalls Olga Stemeva.
"Somehow a five-year-old Nastya was glanced to us, which he held the grandfather for his hand. They came to the hospital to visit the youngest sister of Nastya and very much wanted to see, but what's going on, behind this door with a sign" Cheerful Corridor "?! We are hospitable and friendly , and Nastya as a result, as a result, it paints all butterflies very beautifully! In the "merry corridor" it is impossible to stay from not to take a brush, "said the participant in the initiative group of the project" Cheerful Corridor "Ekaterina Trofimova.
© Photo Provided by the project "Cheerful Corridor"Noize MC musician took part in the project "Cheerful Corridor"
© Photo Provided by the project "Cheerful Corridor"
It happens that coloring the walls and chat with small patients of hospitals come celebrities. For example, a musician Noize MC took part in the mural in the Morozov hospital. See the idol for children in the hospital was an unforgettable feeling.
"The guys, of course, enjoyed the guys, but even more pleasure received girls who lay in the neighboring department. They walked past the drawing Neza and almost went crazy from the presence of their adorable singer. It was an interesting experience, and thank you very much. Ivan and His team for participating in the shares, "said Anna Rumyantsev.
The "cheerful corridor" is difficult to attribute to some specific type of volunteering, there are elements and cultural, and social volunteering.
