TRAUM
Parametric dream-room design
A pilot program between ART+COM, Philips, Graft Architects and Charité university hospital to redesign patient-centric intensive care unit. At the center of the redesign is a large-format colour LED screen installed above the bed. In addition to the RGB LEDs, 20,000 lux high-powered, hot and cold white LEDs approximate natural daylight.
We developed generative media content based on a patient evaluation algorithm that is intended to help patients reorient after a major surgery or coming out of a coma. The visual stimuli adapts to the patient's level of delirium, cognitive state, experience of pain and sense of time, helping with recovery. In addition the daylight therapy helps reorient the circadian rhythm to the outside world.
A user study lasting several years showed a clear improvement of the patient recovery in result of the reimagined ICU.
The project Parametrische (T)Raumgestaltung is a joint research initiative by the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, GRAFT Architects, ART+COM, and the Charité CFM Facility Management GmbH. It is funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology and won the first prize in the Design & Health Management competition organised by the Berlin state initiative Project Future in 2012.
Image Credits: ART+COM
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