Project specifics
The hospital is designed around 3 main lift/stair cores, which lead to the various different medical areas and departments. Each lift core has a designated theme and colour palette to help define that section of the hospital, with large floor numbers incorporated into the designs located opposite each lift, to help visitors orientate themselves and find their way.
My brief was to create six mural art pieces to reflect three locations in the Town core. As they’re all in the same core, all the designs use the same colour palette. My assigned locations were:
• Brighton’s Peace Statue
• The Theatre Royal, Brighton
• The i360
Below: Peace Statue and Theatre Royal artwork in situ, on the walls of the hospital. Photos © Matt Livey
Above: The initial sketches created for the project, with consideration given to placement of doorways and various wall furniture, as well as allowing space for the large floor numbers.
There were only a few changes before progressing to the artwork stage, most notably to one of the theatre designs.
I had originally included a cast of characters to add interest and a sense of fun – these were removed to simplify the image, as there was likelihood of it being highly visible to many patients with dementia.
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