Art in Site’s Gentle Light Wall is designed to create a calming environment and give users greater control over their surroundings.
When a room feels comfortable and supportive, it can help the nervous system move out of ‘fight or flight’ mode and allow a calmer perspective on the situation.
Hunters Architecture created a secure, low-stimulus mental health room, cleverly positioned in the Children’s ED at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, so staff can discreetly supervise to keep patients in acute crisis safe.
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All too often, rooms with heavy compliance requirements like this can feel bleak, and patients awaiting a mental health assessment report feeling that their liberty has been taken away.
The light wall offers choices of different light atmospheres.
A nightlight button means the tiring overhead lighting can be switched off without plunging the room in to darkness.
Designs linked to the light wall on the windows were carefully designed at just the right level of translucency, so occupants of the room sensed the comforting glow of coming and going around the nurse base but didn’t feel like they were in a fish tank.
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Choice, calm and privacy are important to clinicians too –and the clinical team quickly realised that when the room was not being used for its primary purpose it was also great place for them to have difficult conversations with parents about the treatment of their children – and for staff to offer each other support in tense situations. The light wall offers distraction and a haven of calm – a sensory room, not a cell.
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