BMT Unit Immersive Healing Experience/ 2024

UVA Children's Bone Marrow Treatment Unit had become crowded and visually unresolved, making an already difficult care environment feel heavier for patients and families. The project needed to bring calm and coherence through storytelling rather than spectacle.

Building on the UVA Children's Experience Design System, the team used nature-based storytelling, color, and signage as a foundation for immersive patient rooms and shared areas. Guided by medical feedback, we added an AR component and custom app with layered natural scenes, motion, and depth designed to create presence without visual weight.

The result is a more settled and restorative healing environment where spatial design and digital media work together in daily use. Ideas first explored as narrative planning evolved into an immersive unit that continues to refine over time.