American architecture studio NBBJ has created a series of interactive media displays in a California children's hospital to ease young patients' anxiety.
Designed by the NBBJ's New York experience design studio ESI Design, the installations consist of screens that display a native California landscape where children can create animal characters to release into the wild.
NBBJ and ESI Design have created an interactive media display for a children's hospital
It is located at Loma Linda University Children?s Hospital (LLUCH) outside of Los Angeles. The team wanted to install a feature to quell the nerves of young patients entering the hospital for surgeries and other appointments.
The studio created an interactive digital forest display called Loma Land that spans five screens built into a lobby wall, and is accompanied by an audio soundtrack. It was created to ease the worries of young patients
"Loma Land will greet young patients with an idyllic forest of animated creatures, rustling plants and the gentle sounds of flowing water," said the team.
Along the digital experience, which spans 415 square feet (38 square metres), children select an animal companion, customise its fur, add accessories, and then release it into the "wild".
It spans a lobby wall with multiple screens
Children select and customize their animals just outside security gates, within three oval-shaped touchscreens. There, they pick animals native to the surrounding California landscape i...