Studio Weave has transformed a defunct exterior space at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital with a series of listening pipes for the young patients to listen to lullabies. The Lullaby Factory sits within a two metre gap between two buildings in the hospital’s Bloomsbury site. The Southwood Building is due to be demolished in 15 years, but in the meantime, the windows look onto an unappealing pipe-ridden brickwork facade.
Studio Weave’s Fantasy Landscape reaches ten storeys in height and 32 metres in length, and uses old tap and gauges reclaimed from a hospital boilerhouse. Sound artist Jessica Curry has composed a brand new lullaby for the project, which children can listen to through the pipes of by tuning into a special radio station within the wards.
Studio Weave said: “In our competition entry we proposed that the Southwood Building, with its oodles of mysterious pipes and plant is not really the Southwood Building, but the Lullaby Factory, manufacturing and releasing gentle, beautiful lullabies to create a calming and uplifting environment for the young patients to recover in”.
“We hope the project will inspire engagement in a variety of ways from children’s paintings to a resource for play specialists to a generator for future commissions”.
Images: Studio Weave
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