PROPOSAL SPOTLIGHT
$160,000 Finalist Proposal: A Suite of 14 Integrated Murals & Wallworks
Rhythms of Recovery, Eleanor Slater Hospital
Rhode Island State Forensic Psychiatric Unit
Rhythms of Recovery is a feasibility-ready proposal for fourteen integrated murals and wall panels, developed across five floors of a high-security behavioral health environment. Drawing on calming, biophilic imagery and carefully selected materials that meet anti-ligature and infection-control requirements, the work translates complex clinical constraints into a cohesive visual system designed to support orientation, dignity, and daily experience.
The proposal reflects an approach to healthcare environments that is both responsive and human-centered, creating spaces that feel grounded, legible, and restorative for those who move through them each day.
$160,000 Finalist Proposal: A Suite of 14 Integrated Murals & Wallworks
Rhythms of Recovery, Eleanor Slater Hospital
Rhode Island State Forensic Psychiatric Unit
Rhythms of Recovery is a feasibility-ready proposal for fourteen integrated murals and wall panels, developed across five floors of a high-security behavioral health environment. Drawing on calming, biophilic imagery and carefully selected materials that meet anti-ligature and infection-control requirements, the work translates complex clinical constraints into a cohesive visual system designed to support orientation, dignity, and daily experience.
The proposal reflects an approach to healthcare environments that is both responsive and human-centered, creating spaces that feel grounded, legible, and restorative for those who move through them each day.
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• Project Scope: A facility-wide suite of fourteen wall-mounted artworks designed for high-security clinical corridors, patient transition zones, and shared treatment environments. Artwork placement and sequencing are calibrated to align with clinical workflows, patient movement patterns, and staff visibility, ensuring compatibility with operational, safety, and care protocols.
• Therapeutic & Clinical Alignment: Rhythms of Recovery is structured as a supportive visual care system that draws on biophilic landscape cues, impressionistic water imagery, and extended horizon lines to promote emotional regulation, reduce agitation, and support orientation and continuity of experience, aligning with best practices in behavioral-health and trauma-informed design. • Safety, Infection Control & Material Performance: Engineered to meet anti-ligature, infection-control, and risk-management standards, the proposal specifies low-glare, cleanable commercial wallcoverings appropriate for healthcare environments, and shatter-resistant, radiused-edge secure panels for original works. All elements are designed to visually integrate existing protective rails, signage, and clinical monitoring systems to ensure no interference with safety infrastructure or operational protocols. • Operational Feasibility & Long-Term Value: Developed as a code-aware, clinically reviewable delivery strategy, Rhythms of Recovery emphasizes durability, maintainability, and lifecycle compatibility, offering a restorative sense of place while minimizing maintenance burden and supporting long-term use by patients, staff, and families within a high-security psychiatric setting. |
Detail of one of the Rhythms of Recovery murals, showing biophilic and aquatic forms designed to create a calm visual field that supports orientation, emotional regulation, and sustained viewing in a behavioral-health setting.
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