Altro Whiterock’s Digiclad digitally printed wall cladding has helped create a particularly imaginative and eye- catching interior in the main lobby at the recently expanded Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, where its depiction of brightly-coloured scenes of woodland life, including flying birds, butterflies, wildflowers, trees, and falling leaves, has proven popular with young patients.
Altro explained: “Throughout the building, elements from nature are depicted in wall graphics and flooring patterns, but it is in the hospital’s main lobby where creativity really runs riot. The uplifting double-height atrium draws in daylight, and provides calming views of the gardens outside. Patients and visitors continue along the lobby and into the ‘Magic Forest’ – a space filled with sculptural trees and large and engaging native wooden animals. Birdsong and other woodland sounds greet them as on the way.” There are plans to introduce the ‘forest’ design into other buildings as the rest of the hospital campus is gradually upgraded.
