Artists have turned the London Children's Hospital into a colorful place. Unique and multi-colored interior of a children's hospital Design of a waiting area in a children's medical center

It is difficult to treat a child when he is afraid of the doctor and the hospital. The interior design of the Matsumoto pediatric dental clinic in Tokyo, Matsumoto district is full of kind animals and you can wait in line in the game room. This is done so that the kids feel free.

The project was developed and implemented by specialists from Te ra inter イ nn za video together with Terada Naoki and tie Kenichi, known for their extraordinary solutions.

A special corner has been created for little patients and their parents. Under the bench are boxes with toys. Funny animals will entertain the child and soothe.

On a glass screen, life-size contours of trees and animals. The combination of light wood and light green color is soothing.

The offices are separated by partitions and are part of a large room. From small offices in the clinic refused. Enclosed spaces can be intimidating for a child.

The built-in wardrobe is almost invisible thanks to the application of plywood in the form of a trunk and branches, which distracts the eye.

A monitor hangs high on the wall in front of the chair. Its position is designed in such a way that it is convenient for a small patient to watch cartoons that are constantly shown.

Additional lighting in the form of powerful lamps is mounted on a high adjustable tripod.

One of the walls has many holes in which funny and nimble worms protrude. The wall decor is varied and fabulous.

The glass façade of the Matsumoto pediatric dental clinic is painted in white paint with silhouettes of animals and birds walking among the trees. Above is the name of the hospital. Opening hours on the door.

They try to accept the smallest in an office with a glass partition. Then the child can see his mother waiting for him and feels more confident.

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Not all volunteer initiatives can easily be classified by type of volunteering. For example, the creators of the Cheerful Corridor project call themselves art social volunteers. About how a group of volunteers decided to give bright colors to the walls of children's hospitals - in the material of the special project "Volunteer Year".

The history of the Cheerful Corridor project began in 2012, when the Board of Trustees of the Morozov Hospital decided to invite artists to paint the walls in two departments. It was decided to turn the familiar plain walls into beautiful and bright ones in order to improve the mood and make the stay of little patients in the hospital more comfortable and joyful. At first, no one thought about a full-fledged volunteer project, they just wanted to create a comfortable space for children in the hospital.

At the same time, at the end of 2012, on New Year's Eve, the first post about the search for volunteers to paint the walls of the hospital was published on social networks. About 20 people responded to the call, 15 volunteers got directly to the painting of the walls. Among them is the artist Anna Rumyantseva, who later became one of the founders of the Cheerful Corridor project.

"We split into two groups (in departments) and worked all the holidays. By the end of the New Year holidays, one of the departments was scheduled, and we unanimously began to complete work in the second department. And when it was all over, we formed a small group of people interested in the continuation of wall painting in children's hospitals," recalls Anna Rumyantseva.

Member of the initiative group of the project "Merry Corridor" Elena Filimonova

At first, the project was supposed only to paint the walls of the Morozov hospital, but then, as the volunteers joke, all the walls there ended, and the project began to expand.

"We, together with the Korablik Charitable Foundation, with which we cooperated at that time, turned to the Department of Health with a proposal to participate in our project and other hospitals in Moscow. The Department helped us a lot by informing medical institutions and organizing a meeting with interested leaders of these institutions" , - says the artist, member of the initiative group "Merry Corridor" Elena Filimonova.

New Horizons

With each new painting, the project gained popularity and attracted more and more medical institutions. The Cheerful Corridor tries not to deny hospitals painting, but in order for volunteers to paint, certain criteria must be met. For example, it is necessary that the walls are repaired so that the paint does not peel off from them.

Member of the initiative group of the project "Merry Corridor" Olga Sutemyeva

“Also, the hospital management should provide us with a room for storing paints, brushes and other tools and equipment,” says Elena Filimonova.

The painting of a large department of the hospital, depending on the complexity, can take from six months to a year. Now, as the organizers of the project say, a whole queue has lined up to paint the walls. But, perhaps, very soon the volunteers of the project will be able to paint the walls at the same time in several hospitals.

Recently, the project joined the Union of Volunteer Organizations and Movements (RED) and thus acquired a legal status and new opportunities, in particular, to attract donations.

"All this gives us reason to hope that in the near future the "Fun Corridor" will be able to simultaneously make paintings in several hospitals and our "queue" will move much faster. REDD will also offer us cooperation with institutions that implement other volunteer projects", - said Elena Filimonova.

So far, the geography of the project is mainly limited to Moscow and the nearest suburbs. But there are also cases of cooperation with medical institutions from other regions.

"In 2016, we collaborated with the Zhivi!" powerful experienced landing force "in order to advance and successfully complete the work," Anna Rumyantseva notes.

The project's activities over the past five years have inspired caring people from all over Russia, and now in the Smolensk region, Bryansk, Samara, and the Urals, volunteers are also painting hospital walls.

Form style

During the painting of the very first objects, the style of the "Merry Corridor" had not yet formed, and drawings in different techniques could well 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 over a circled piece of the wall with a number with a certain color. This style of painting is considered the most suitable for mass painting, and even those volunteers who absolutely cannot draw can take part in the painting.

Any participant in this process feels that he is joining the beauty and usefulness, that this wonderful painted wall contains his work, and such walls look like those painted by a professional artist in a flat style. Artists prepare the wall for painting in advance, breaking it into pieces, like batik or mosaic, where each piece will be painted with its own color,” says Olga Sutemyeva, artist, member of the initiative group.

There are no age restrictions for Cheerful Corridor volunteers. Schoolchildren with students, older people, and even the smallest ones take part in the project.

"Once my seven-year-old nephew Roma came to paint. He watched how the sketches were created and took a lively part in their development. He was one of the main ones in the focus group of kids! And he also advised adding cars and transport to the cartoons, because it will be very interesting for the boys. And when the drawings were put on the walls, Roma painted over his piece with trepidation and joy, "recalls Olga Sutemyeva.

“Somehow, five-year-old Nastya dropped in on us, who was held by her grandfather’s hand. They came to the hospital to visit Nastya’s younger sister and really wanted to see what was happening there, behind this door with a sign “Merry Corridor” ?! We are hospitable and friendly , and as a result, Nastenka painted all the butterflies very beautifully for us! In the "Merry Corridor" it is impossible not to pick up a brush," said Yekaterina Trofimova, a member of the initiative group of the "Merry Corridor" project.

It happens that celebrities come to paint the walls and chat with little hospital patients. For example, the musician Noize MC took part in the painting in the Morozov hospital. Seeing an idol for children in the hospital was an unforgettable experience.

"The guys, of course, enjoyed it, but the girls who were in the next department enjoyed even more. They walked past the drawing Noise and almost went crazy with the presence of their adored singer nearby. It was an interesting experience, and many thanks to Ivan and his team for participating in the action," said Anna Rumyantseva.

Volunteering as a way of life

"Merry Corridor" is difficult to attribute to any particular type of volunteering, there are elements of both cultural and social volunteering.

Long gone are typical buildings with typical interior design. Each kindergarten, children's hospital, studio or other institution strives to create a unique interior that will delight their little visitors. This is very important, because children perceive the world differently than adults. For them, the dental office will not be scary if its walls are decorated with pictures of animals, beautiful teeth or other positive stories. And they will be happy to go to kindergarten if there is also children's wall decoration and at the threshold they are greeted by a picture with Carlson, Crocodile Gena or other favorite characters.

What are good decorative stickers for children?

Price. Not all establishments can afford to purchase expensive wallpapers with children's patterns or order the services of artists. It's good that today there is a great alternative to these methods of decorating walls and furniture in rooms - the use of beautiful stickers. Children will certainly appreciate the cartoon characters on the doors of their lockers in kindergarten or the images of fairy-tale characters on the walls of the clinic.
Ease of use. Decorating walls in a kindergarten, hospital, club, etc. with the help of stickers will not take much time. Any person who does not even have experience installing vinyl stickers can handle this. Just peel off the protective layer on the back of the product and apply the pattern to any flat surface. Thus, you can create unique designer furniture, decorate walls, make stained-glass windows from ordinary windows.
Manifold. There are many methods for applying stickers, just like the options for the stickers themselves. Different sizes, shapes, colors, images - all this will help to achieve the uniqueness of the room at minimal cost. You will decide for yourself what is better: to buy small stickers for decorating a high chair for each baby in kindergarten, or buy one large one on the wall in the assembly hall.

Wall decoration in kindergartens. How it's done?

Wall decoration in kindergartens undoubtedly requires a creative approach. If you cannot decide on your own how to use the stickers, you can contact the specialists of our company. Our experienced and creative designers will help you create a sketch of a unique interior design. They really understand the tastes of the younger generation and will tell you which pictures are better to paste for a certain age group of children.

Not only children's institutions buy stickers. They can also be applied in the interior of a children's room in order to create a cozy atmosphere for kids, place bright accents, and make the room more interesting for its little owner. For home use, mostly small or medium-sized pictures are purchased. They can be placed side by side on the wall, creating a composition, or glued in a chaotic manner on all four walls, the ceiling, cabinets and bedside tables. Sometimes whole panels are created from interior stickers, glued around the perimeter of the room in the form of a dividing border between wallpapers of different colors, between the wall and the ceiling.

Wall decoration in the garden can be different from the use of decorative stickers at home. Small pictures are bought mainly in order to decorate furniture. If each cabinet or chair has its own image, then it will be easier for kids to navigate and find the right piece of furniture. Large stickers can serve as an original decoration for a bedroom, assembly hall or dining room. Whichever option you choose, children's wall decoration will definitely please the kids for a very long time!

The hospital has its own logic and structure subordinate to it - in order to "humanize" such a space, make it comfortable for the child, you need to take into account many nuances. We tell how foreign designers and architects cope with this task using the example of three projects implemented in the UK.

British designer Morag Myerscough is well-known for her love of bright colors - whatever she takes on, it turns out vividly and emotionally. The design project of the children's hospital in Sheffield was no exception, only here we had to work especially carefully with flowers: firstly, the space should not irritate children with autism, and secondly, it should be comfortable not only for kids, but also for older children age. The main task of the architect was to give the hospital wards a more homely look. Myerscoe designed forty-six bedrooms, bathrooms and shared lounges. She did not change herself: the space turned out to be multi-colored, but not bright - muted tones perform the same function as saturated ones, but at the same time they do not irritate the sensitive children's mind.

In addition, in a hospital environment, it is important that everything remains sterile, which means that it is easy to wash and clean. Myerskow solves this problem with a plastic laminate. The wooden panels in the wards are also laminated and washed in the same way as the walls. Laminate company Formica helped the designer to realize the idea. Their panels also perform another important function - they hide medical equipment, wires and cables behind them. This allows you to make the space more comfortable, suitable for a child to stay in it for a long time.

SIDS MYERSCOE interior designer Although the wards are designed for children, I didn't want them to look childish. Instead, I tried to make them cozy and in a way that would appeal to children of different ages and remain comfortable for visiting parents - I just wanted to make a room in which everyone would feel good. The hardest part was printing wood panels in a clean, true color onto the laminate. Due to the peculiarities of production, this was not easy to do, and the process took us a year. In the end, everything worked out, and the wood heat was preserved.

The British architectural bureau Keppie set itself the same task in the work on the project of the children's hospital in Glasgow - to make the space comfortable for a long stay in it for children and their parents. The campus, commissioned by the charity Ronald McDonald House, is designed for parents to live here with their children while they are in treatment. Bedrooms, lounges, a kitchen and a games room - everything, according to the architects, should resemble a house. Keppie concentrated on the layout of the building and its construction. Two spacious courtyards on either side of the central building should remind children of a playground near the house, and the material chosen for construction - rough white brick - makes the hospital related to a rural house. To achieve more resemblance to a private house, the architects used rectangular bay windows, multifaceted ledges with windows in the wall of the building.

The interior matches the façade: natural materials, muted tones and precise detailing all create the image of a comfortable communal home.

DAVID ROSS representative of Keppie Design in Glasgow The hospital has its own logic and function, our task was to preserve them, but to get away from the unpleasant associations that buildings of the healthcare category usually evoke. The building has a simple and austere facade, but at the same time does not look like a hospital. We connected the buildings with each other with the help of spacious corridors, windows overlooking the courtyard. The yard also protects from the noise of buses rattling down Govan Road and screaming ambulances. It is a great honor for us to work on a project for children who are going through such a difficult period in their lives. The design in this case follows purely humanistic principles - it tries to make the hospital space as human as possible.

Designers at London-based Jason Bruges Studio have found an easier way to transform the hospital. For the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospice, they implemented an interactive Nature Trail project that should smooth out the unpleasant experience of visiting the operating room for a child. On the wall in the corridor, the designers placed a large digital panel depicting the inhabitants of the forest: hotels, hedgehogs, birds and frogs. 72,000 LED elements are integrated into the custom-made wallpaper, which, lighting up in different sequences, make forest creatures appear on the wallpaper and seem to run along the surface of the wall - the designers came up with 70 images in total. All of them are located at different levels so that both small and older children can see.

JASON BRUDGES creator of interactive architectural integrations, founder of Jason Bruges Studio The "Nature Trail" is the road that the little patient makes his journey on the way to the operating room: in this way we wanted to distract him and calm him down. The walls turn into a canvas on which the forest creatures come to life. They emerge 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.

The rooms and corridors, the sounds and smells of the hospital make this place terrifying for children. But the hospital should not inspire fear. British arts organization Vital Arts, responsible for introducing art to British hospitals, has brought together 15 artists to transform the interior of the Royal Children's Hospital in London into an amazing and colorful space.

Despite the fact that the hospital must be constantly cleaned, artists have still been able to use vinyl, ceramics, wood, and even carpets to bring these hospital walls to life. Each artist has created his own unique style.

13 PHOTOS

1. Intensive care unit decorated by artist Thord Boontje.
2. The artist's work includes animals and flowers on the walls. Only doors and medical automatic doors remained intact. Large drawings have many details and each time you can find something new in them.
3. Traumatology and gastroenterology from Morag Myerscough.
4. The artist tried to depict all the images that he kept in his memory for many years and splashed them out in his work. Thus, elements of the circus, art deco, Asian culture, Victorian architecture appeared on the walls, and this is not a complete list. Initially, the artist transferred everything to paper in the form of sketches, and then to the walls.
5. The goal was to make wards that bring joy to young patients and their parents, to make them warm and hospitable.
6. Hematology by Donna Wilson.
7. Donna's goal was to make the hospital different from ordinary hospitals. She wanted patients, parents, and nursing staff to feel calm and relaxed, and that the design of the walls was uplifting.
8. The reaction of children and parents was amazing.
9. Waiting Room by Chris Haughtonoma.
10. Chris decided to draw animals, lions, fish, etc. in every room.
11. Vinyl has been used in the hallways to create life-size animals.
12. Department of Pulmonology from Miller Goodman.
13. Wood is a traditional warm material that has been and is being used to make toys. And very often the tree brings back pleasant memories of childhood. The combination of bright vinyl colors and wooden characters is very popular with children.