Interactive installation developer Jason Bruges Studio has carried out a project for London's Great Ormond Street Hospital to help children arrive at the operating theatre in peace thanks to a “nature walk” in which the walls of the hospital become an interactive canvas in which horses appear, Deer, Sea urchins, birds and frogs.

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The firm Jason Bruges Studio has completed a unique project for London's Great Ormond Street Hospital with a view to improving children's journey to the operating theatre. The idea was to design and install a distraction device that would help create a relaxing and engaging route for patients. 1 to 16 years culminating with your arrival in the anesthesia room. The inspiration came from the idea of seeing the patient journey as a 'nature trail', where the walls of the hospital become a natural canvas, with digital viewpoints that reveal to the passerby the different creatures of the forest, like horses, Deer, Sea urchins, birds and frogs.

'The Nature Trail’ has been installed inside the hospital's new Morgan Stanley Clinical Building, the first part of Mittal Children's Medical Center. The interactive installation takes place along a stretch of 50 meters of corridor on the way to the operating room. The work, covering the walls of the hallway, has essentially two main elements: integrated LED panels and custom graphic wallpapers.

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THE LED panels are embedded in the surface of the wall at different heights in order to be accessible to the levels of the eye and to the positions of patients moving along the corridors. Through these digital surfaces abstract animal movements are recreated as animated and 3D interactive light patterns that appear through the trees and foliage of the forest., interacting playfully with passers-by. Animals come to life when sensors located on the ceiling detect movement. The work consists of 70 LED panels, with a total of 72.000 Leds. The custom-made wallpaper, created by the company Muraspec, is hospital grade, clean and easy to replace.


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by • 2 Jan, 2013
• section: Digital signage, simulation