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Solund
- a home for people with severe physical and mental
disabilities in Denmark - has recently opened The Golden
Horn, its new snoezelen centre.
Solund has dedicated its time and energy to develop a
snoezelen centre containing the right elements to create
a modern and innovative place that users can benefit
from. The idea behind a snoezelen centre is to create
settings which intensify the users’ senses by
stimulating, entertaining, calming or activating them.
ProShop Europe, a famous Danish-based AV technology
integration specialist, has been the main technical
partner for this project. They supplied and installed
the screens, control panels, lighting and audio systems.
They also selected and programmed the Medialon control
system installed in The Golden Horn.
Nine different snoezelen rooms have been built and
designed in the centre. They all feature
state-of-the-art AV technology that allows the rooms to
turn into life amazing environments, in order to bring
the best experience to the patients.
In each room, there is a Medialon Showmaster ST
installed, which controls all the technical
installations within the room. Along with the ten
Medialon Showmaster ST embedded controllers units,
twenty-five MIP media players have been installed at The
Golden Horn.
The sensory experience starts while walking down The
Golden Horn’s main corridor, where six 42” plasma
screens, an 18sqm LED screen, two PoolSystems, sound and
lighting effects have been installed in order to create
unique and inviting universes for the patients. Some of
the universes they can experience are a rainforest, a
desert with lizards and an ocean theme with fishes and
crabs.
The PoolSystems have been installed in the main corridor
in order to invite people to interact with them either
by walking, sitting or lying on them. The PoolSystems
can be used for entertainment purposes or to motivate
the user to move around, either by playing on a meadow
of flowers or walking on the bottom of the ocean chasing
fish. The theme of the PoolSystem is synchronized with
the overall theme of the main corridor and changes with
it.
In addition, each of the plasma screens is integrated in
its own light box, which forms a colorful frame. They
are connected and synchronized with the videos, music
and lighting effects triggered depending on the theme
chosen by the centre’s staff.
« Our technical and creative teams have worked together
to develop custom video projections which create very
realistic experiences. », says Tom Gertsen,
Technical Fellow at ProShop Europe
« For instance, in one of the snoezelen room, six
video projectors enable the creation of one large
picture, which is projected onto two walls and a cone-shaped
construction. Each video is supported by realistic sound
effects, which truly enhances the experience. », adds Tom
Gertsen.
Along with the main Medialon control system, ProControl,
a touch panel user interface design software has been
especially developed by ProShop Europe for The Golden
Horn. The control panels allow the centre’s staff to
easily turn on/off all the AV devices, change colour
themes, video projections, etc., in any of the snoezelen
rooms thanks to intuitive and user-friendly interfaces.
For further information, please visit:
www.carmichaelenterprises.ca/snoezelen-centre.php |
