Shifting Shapes

This reminds me of something out of American McGee's Alice...

I wonder what this room was used for?

looks like the shelter i went into yesterday lol

reminds me of kings park!

I really like the soft light from the windows up on the wall Motts.

yup, thats alotta shapes, very cool

Looks to me like a kitchen of some sort, though i't could be an office floorroomthingie

interesting...

My guess would be patient dormitories. I could swear I've seen big rooms with similar dividers labeled as such elsewhere on the site (though maybe I'm wrong).

This photo doesn't portray good memories for this room.

Yes, your right

Ilaynay,

Yes, a lot of facilities used these half-walls or "pony walls" to separate rooms so each person had some space, although obviously not a lot of privacy. Building code won't allow for these any more though, and if you have them you'll be fined.

Lynne, did some of the hopitals put clients in rooms with half walls? Couln't that be dangerous?

The floor just seems to go on forever. This is a great picture.

jackieb,

When the hospitals became overcrowded and no one would increase their funding they had to make use of what space they had, so one of the ideas was to try to separate the space by using dividers. In some of the pictures of old hospitals you will see up to 60 beds crowded together in one medium sized room, where the beds were side to side and head to foot and you could only get to them by hopping from one to another. Even though pony walls look like a huge lack of privacy to us these days, back then any setting aside of space was unusual and was intended to give the person a small sense of personal space. Most of the time pony walls were used for folks who were not ambulatory or who would not wander into each others' space and destroy their belongings.

There are still a number of places where several people may stay/sleep together in one room, especially if they are medically fragile and all need the same intensive support and same type of medical equipment, but most places have done a significantly better job of setting aside private areas in the rooms.

Long answer - short question. :-)

When the men on the chess board
get up and tell you where to go
And you just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving slow
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know
(Jefferson Starship "Go Ask Alice")

lynne
i totaly luv the way u explain the rough with the smooth you say it nicely 2 the people who have never worked in care but i have and you answer the questions so well 4 me i've just found this site and i'm so glad your here some of the comments make me so mad

wow .

i guess im the only one that noticed this , but above the doorway where the light is coming in from the windows , it looks like an eye .

very awesome .

apple,oh i just noticed that too,it realy does look like an eye,did you see that right off?

I kind of liked that comment, Amazed. It seemed to fit this....

The perspective of this shot is insane and intriguing all the same, and while the colors are more neutral and even in their tones, it's still beautiful with the contrast and the sharpness.

And I'm just waiting for something to pop up unexpectedly in that window. >.>

Ooh that is creepy! I look at the top left of the doorway and I can see an eye looking at me through the glow.
*shudder*