Nicklaus Children's Hospital Installations

Overview

Miami, Florida
213,000 ft² new construction
450,000 ft² renovation

Brief

Activate public spaces with interactive installations that communicate Nicklaus Children’s standing as the world’s most technologically-advanced children’s hospital.

Services

Donor recognition standards, permanent donor recognition design and implementation, interactive donor recognition design and development, software design and development, design and storyboards for interpretive narration

Site Analysis

A large new lobby lacked key landmarks to guide visitors
Strategic placement of interactive elements in public spaces could support an overall wayfinding strategy
Recommended moving welcome desk so that visitors could interact directly with donor recognition and storytelling installations

Case Study

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3D holographic displays are embedded in a seamless Corian wall.

The History and Innovation Wall in the main lobby of the hospital’s new patient tower was conceived as a digital exhibit that would tell the story of how surgeons at Nicklaus used technology to save the life of a child with a heart condition previously considered to be inoperable. fig. a

Animated holograms interact with physical elements within the displays, including a 3D-printed model of the patient’s heart fig. b that allowed doctors to better understand her condition and plan a course of action for the operation prior to surgery.

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While the holograms tell the patient’s story in three-dimensional animation, the wall itself illuminates with digital messages integrated into the surface.

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fig. c
Custom acrylic painted panels listing donor names come together to create large-scale letterforms.

The “Together for the Children” campaign donor recognition wall fig. c is a sculptural expression that commemorates donors who gave to Nicklaus Children’s Hospital over the course of a specific period of time, for a specific initiative.

To honor a growing list of past and present major contributors to Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, we also created a multi-touch interactive digital wall. fig. d A custom content-managed back end allows the hospital to add donors and match them to their contribution level at any time.