First Project, Decaying Hospital

Urban exploration and the documentation of abandoned structures has become increasingly popular today. Sometimes people go out of their way to find these places of interest to document them through images before the building is demolished, other times the poor buildings are vandalized to the point of severe damage. Some buildings are lucky enough to stay intact and untouched for many, many years, while others may be ruined from neglect or completely desecrated.

The idea of such large structures losing their ultimate purpose, becoming completely abandoned, and left to the elements until finally the historic monument begin to deteriorate fascinates me to no end. That is why I decided for one of my portfolio pieces to be based on the idea of these majestic structures.

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Norwich State Hospital, Preston CT

Buffalo State Hospital, Buffalo NY

In this project I aim to create an eerie abandoned hospital room similar to the given images above. There will be a few things that I want to keep in mind and incorporate to create a unique scene.

1. Instead of the scene being an old outdated hospital building I'm going to create a more modern hospital room with the same look of decay. How will you be able to identify that it's a modern time period verse past? By having somewhat modern day machines and equipment to help give the sense of a more present time. Also, old hospitals had very different layouts compared to today. A good example would be realizing back then hospital beds were crammed together in one large room giving no privacy. Now modern day hospital rooms are very private, only having one or two beds to each room.
2. The scene will look as if it's in a state of natural decay, but wasn't touched by human hands. The ceiling will be falling apart, wallpaper will be peeling off, and debris will litter the floor. Without human interaction certain things such as hospital bed sheets, medicine bottles, and possibly hospital machines will still be in the scene, but look damaged or badly weathered. 
3. Last, I hope to incorporate signs of nature taking over the room. Whether it be climbing vines along the walls or moss growing in water damaged areas something "organic" should be placed in the scene to show a contrast of some sort. Inorganic vs organic, or decay vs regrowth would be an example.