Large scale printed wall image in CT Room
DR JONES AND PARTNERS | SAHMRI ON NORTH TERRACE ADELAIDE
The trickiest image commissioned to date, a 12m long image to suit an odd shaped CT Room within the new Dr Jones and Partners radiology clinic located within the SAHMRI building on North Terrace in Adelaide City.
Let’s start with the CT room, it follows the contours and shape of the SAHMRI building. Not only does it curve and wraps its way around the CT room, the wall also leans in on a rake. This constraint alone required some careful planning and consideration of the type of image needed.
Typically an image is printed onto a film and then applied to a square wall which can be difficult enough to line up the overlaps in the print. To be able to adhere a film to a curved and raking wall we needed to use a film that could be pulled and pushed to fit the curve of the wall.
Since the printed media needed to be pushed and pulled to fit the shape of the wall, I needed to create an image where the top and bottom sections of the image could be contorted. I designed the image to contain sky in the top section and water in the bottom section so that if it does distort you will not notice it like the straight lines of a building or a tree.
The next obstacle in this room was the positioning of the joinery units in the middle of the wall and to the rear of the room. I had to make sure my composition did not obscure the main subject behind these units. I had a few test runs of the location to find the best vantage point before returning at sunset to take the final image.
