Project Peel is a response to a collaborative brief set by the Design HOPES research initiative to explore how design can help NHS Scotland achieve net zero goals and improve health. The brief was approached in pairs and I worked alongside another final year interior design student to reimagine a ward based in Ninewells hospital, Dundee, focusing on concept involving sustainable solutions to improve a working medical environment.
Through the utilisation of a transparent biomaterial crafted from orange peels, this concept promotes a personalisation of privacy within the shared hospital bays in an ENT ward at Dundee’s Ninewells hospital. The design optimises the flow of light which is vital to the spatial setting of a healing environment. The abstraction of an orange acts as a catalyst for each bay to become a segment, divided yet unified by a continuous layer of the biomaterial above becoming the peel.
Awarded to the project:
Design Hopes IED Competition, Bronze award (2024)