hospital entrance and garden

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

this was a quick re-work of a project that left my desk several years ago, only when it left, it didn't have the hybrid effect.

anyway, i thought it looked kind of interesting. i think when i do it again, i will seperate a channel out for each color, so that when i apply the loose brush strokes across it, the strokes will only effect the color of the channel i have selected.

......i know, the shadow on the right looks bad among other things. i only spent about 10 minutes on the processing of it.

[Rick Eloy]

Hey, Travis! Nice, nice pic! I really enjoy the effect you achieved.

[Tim Nelson]

I like it! Nice feeling to it.

[Timothy Saunders]

Ya there are a few strange parts like the shadow you mentioned, but I like it overall. I would be real interested in seeing the results of seperating color chanels and painting only the selected channels as you mentioned. Do one soon if you can.

[Elliot]

Travis

I am not much into the accuracy of the scenes. I only work on hospitals, I think your image is very nice. I wish hospital architects would spend time to "Humanize" their hospitals. Your image is really good, as all of your other images for healthcare.

Regards
Elliot

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

I wish hospital architects would spend time to "Humanize" their hospitals.

...this is an interesting statement. ...are the envirometns are to sterile? ..to formal? ...to cold?

[Elliot]

Travis

Roger on all of the above.....! I visit hospitals from China to Europe and from Canada to Argentina. Our hospitals are among the best, our doctors are among the best.... but sometimes I think we are too sterile. The families of these long term patients taking care of their own people do not have an easy visit.

Some of these families practically live in the hospital while their relative is sick. The hospital rooms look like cookie cutters. Very seldom you green areas, gardens.... etc The extra security makes the hospitals look like a giant laboratory.

I don't know the solutions. Everytime I go to a hospital I am intimidated with the hostile machines I see. I don't get intimidated easily in the OR's, that's what I do every day.... but when I go as patient I am certainly intimidated...!

All the work I see coming out of your group looks very nice. I like the NICU project you did about 1 year ago... it was very good without the laboratory look.

Regards
Elliot

[manta]

Love it, great pic...

[hockley91]

This is a response to Elliot...

I agree that our hospitals are way too sterile. I was in 4 different hospitals last year here in San Antonio during the summer of 2005.

I was pretty much paralyzed when I was laying on my back. I have an autoimmune disease in which my immune system is attacking my upper arm and upper thigh muscles. I was pretty much bedridden last summer because of muscle weakness. I couldn't do anything and I needed 24 hour care. I have recovered now thanks to therapy and many many drugs to keep my immune system under control.

In any case, at one of the hospitals, I was placed in the pediatric ward for a time because the hospital was so full. I will tell you that was the best room that I was in. They had colors on the walls and they had designs imprinted on the layin ceiling, and they had music playing whenever a baby was born. It was actually more calming for me because there were things that would occupy me as I laid down.

The other hospital rooms were your typical white walls, white layin ceiling.....very boring and not good for the mind.

Little things like they did in the pediatric ward can make a big difference mentally if you have a long stay at a hospital.

Adam

[Elliot]

Adam

During the last 3 weeks I have been travelling like crazy. I had not seen your comments. Your story is incredible. I am glad to hear things are under control.

Your experience is something I have heard before. I met a welder that went inside a gas tank to do a spot welding. They had not clear the fumes well enough and the gas tank blew up with him inside. He has been registered as the most severe burn victim in the eastern US that has been able to survive. He has been in the hospital for 1.5 years. He has been in an sterile room with little or no contact with people unless the clinical staff in sterile gowns. When I visit the hospital I talk to him through a glass window and intercome system. It is an incredible story. I have spent some time interviewing him to understand how can we correct our designs. His main complain is that he feels like an experimental specimen.

I know a kid that just finish his PhD in Healthcare architecture in Germany. His BS in the US, master in the UK and PhD in Germany. He is determined to change the atmosphere inside the hospitals. In Germany the hospital are more sterile than in the US. His father is also an architect and the old man spends a lot of time selecting the materials in order to make the hospitals more cozy.

It is interesting, most architects and interior designers spend a lot of time making the pediatric wards a little bit more "human", just like you say. Hope everything remains under control and hope you don't have to spend more time in a hospital.

Regards
Elliot