Each floor had a unique corresponding plant and colorway scheme to provide clear and calming wayfinding queues.

We strove for consistency in every aspect of the individual floors — hallways, elevator lobbies, nurses’ stations, and signage.  On each floor one version of the plant was backlit in the elevator lobby to impart a glowing dimensional effect.  A new artform inspired by this project, an etched printmaking approach, was used on a coordinated version of the plant at the nurses station.

In fulfilling the hospital’s request that each entrance make a strong aesthetic statement we created an impressive two-story feature wall that greets people at the main entrance.  The artwork was created to read as one image, but produced and installed as megatiles to maintain safety and retain the digital image quality.

Additional coordinating images were used to provide a translucent artwork for a meditation chapel, a bright backlit artwork for a long articulated corridor leading to a restaurant, a color-modified and cropped set of images to integrate with the stone wall for another corridor, and white on white imagery to provide the desired level of privacy in waiting rooms and nurses’ station divider panels.

In all, 70 images were created, drawing inspiration from medicinal plants of New England.  The trust between the client and LYNNEL was significant in actualizing the vision.