Bei dem Entwurf „Farbräume“ sind die beiden Zustände der Intensivstation von Ruhe und Bewegung zusammen erfasst: Die Unbeweglichkeit der ans Bett gebundenen Patienten und die geschäftige Beweglichkeit der umhereilender Pflegepersonen bekommt...

Colour spaces

Room-wide colour concept, wall painting and ceiling motifs. Intensive care unit of the Clinical Centre of the Rhein-Mosel-Fachklinik Andernach. In the design "Colour Spaces", the two states of rest and movement in the intensive care unit are captured together. The immobility of the bed-bound patients and the bustling mobility of the caregivers hurrying around are simultaneously...

...given an artistic expression. The overall spatial colour concept comprises two corridors and 16 patient rooms. All colour interventions interlock: the corridors are spatially redefined, as only one corridor wall is only one corridor wall is coloured. The corridors, which were previously perceived as separate the light green-turquoise interior block of the adjoining rooms. A multicoloured band of colour flows around this core area in light sweeps across all doorways and corridors. all doorways and corridors and accompanies the movements of the nursing staff. of the nursing staff. The doors of the patients' rooms each pick up a colour from the colour band and The doors of the patients' rooms each take up a colour from the colour band and announce the colourfulness of the rooms behind them. The ceilings of the rooms pick up the colour of the doors in a slightly lighter shade. In addition wallpapered surfaces on the ceilings create perceptual stimuli, a calm perceptual stimuli, a calm eye-catcher for the bed-bound patients. patients. The interlocking artistic interventions with calm colour accents create clear zoning, spatial orientation and a healthy environment for the hospital patients.
 

Realisation 2022
© Regina Kochs VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022
Wall painting: Regina Kochs with the assistance of Katharina Hochhaus, Cologne
Motif printing: Wallpaper agency, Cologne
Wallpapering: Christof Kaul, Koblenz
Colours: Billux
Photos: © Gerhard Hagen + Regina Kochs