Art+ worked with acclaimed designer Morag Myerscough, devising four colourways, from bright to calm, across all 46 en suite bedrooms and a different scheme for the multi occupancy bays in the hospital’s newest wing.
All of the bedrooms have a dedicated space for a parent to sleep in a bed rather than a camp bed or fold-down chair, as well as en suite facilities, giving patients and their families privacy. Enhancements also included specialist glazing, which means that when a patient is having a tough day they can have some space to themselves. The design involved some technical challenges, using standard hospital materials in a new way, but we believe the rooms make a real difference to the experience of being in hospital.
“Although the rooms are for children I didn’t want them to be childish because children of all different age groups will be staying in them,” said Morag. “I also wanted to create somewhere parents would be happy to spend time too. It was just about making a bedroom that you felt good to be in.”
The project is part of numerous fresh commissions provided for the hospital’s biggest ever redevelopment.
Photos: Jill Tate
