Appointment Play

Physical therapy, also known as physiotherapy, can include certain exercises, massages, and treatments based on physical stimuli, to treat acute and chronic symptoms. Physical therapy (P.T.) can also help prevent future problems or for rehabilitation after long-term medical problems, surgery, or injuries.

On the west side of Appointment Play is the physical therapy rainforest. The rainforest is home to a two-story window, helping to blend the interior jungle space with the surrounding real-world flora and fauna.

Information from the National Library of Medicine.

The aim of occupational therapy is to help people to live their lives more independently. Occupational therapists can help, for instance, if you have limited use of your hand or arm due to a medical condition. They may recommend various exercises or activities, offer you advice, or suggest changing certain things in your everyday life.

Here we meet friendly visitors from planet Kepler - 186f. In this space, adventurers become astronauts, exploring life in outer space while practicing life skills that will benefit astronauts now and living independently in the future.

Information from the National Library of Medicine.

Hippotherapy is a form of physical, occupational, and speech therapy in which a therapist uses the characteristic movements of a horse to provide carefully graded motor and sensory input. Unlike therapeutic horseback riding (where specific riding skills are taught), the movement of the horse is a means to a treatment goal when utilizing hippotherapy as a treatment strategy.

Outside of Appointment Play’s main building is Sweet Stables, a sweet retheming for hippotherapy. Adventurers become equestrians as they travel through gingerbread and larger-than-life sweets.

Information from the National Library of Medicine.

LAYOUT

My design has an overall footprint of about 80,000 square feet (79,539.63). Approximately 11,000 square feet across two levels to create the physical therapy rainforest, 8,500 square feet to blast into outer space with Kepler - 186f, 11,000 square feet with two floors for staff, 14,000 square feet dedicated to horse stables with a 16,000 square foot riding arena, 1,000 square foot area dedicated to meditation maze(s), 3,200 square feet space for gardening, and a 1,400 back deck seating area for all to enjoy.

All spaces follow the U. S. Department of Defense Occupational and Physical Therapy (2017) guidelines.

Appointment Play is my pitch for redesigning medical spaces to bring magic and fun to typically mundane spaces.

PROFESSIONAL SPACES

Separating the adventurers from the astronauts are the guides & leaders, or the doctors & staff.

Upon entering, guests see a check-in window and two doors, one on either side. Both are themed to match the adventures yet to begin.

The rocket would be a physical prop and the blast-off effect is controlled by check-in staff and can be put on a timer.

Each side of Appointment Play has private offices for specialties with appropriately matched doors.

Chalkboards are incorporated into the door design to easily change doctor's names.

RAINFOREST
PHYSICAL THERAPY

Depending on the level of challenge and exercises approved by guides, adventurers can use a rock wall, net climb, elevator, or stairs up to the second floor to take a ride down on the Brazilian Rainbow Boa slide.

The two-story window helps to blur the interior jungle space with the real-world environment. Also seen here is the Brazilian Rainbow Boa slide.

Near the window is a couch with a small water feature for guardians to sit and watch the adventure with blue and white ribbons hanging from the second level, emulating sitting under a waterfall.

The earlier mentioned platform climb option to the second level.

Gather at the watering hole for a new balance challenge. Foam logs and lead a path to a center ‘safe’ tree, providing vines as supports from falling into the watery crocodile-filled depths.

Also seen here are the sensory-controlled caves. Filled with soft seating, each space is soundproofed and equipped with adjustable lights and control over sounds and volume.

KEPLER - 186f
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

Kepler-186f

Kepler-186f is believed to be capable of life and similar to Earth’s size in a similar ‘habitable zone’ of another star, similar to our sun. It turns out that this planet is not only habitable, but some aliens are looking to learn more about other worlds like theirs. With the help of the visiting astronauts, the Kepler-ians can understand how we, on Earth, live.

While the Kelaprians were fabricated for the experience, Keplar-186f is a real planet!
Information on Keplar-186f can be found here.

Boasting two bedroom simulation spaces with an adjoining kitchen simulation, our International Space Station enables astronauts to practice and showcase what it is to be part of the human race.

Turn through a portal where part of our planet was traded with Kepler - 186f. Here, Astronauts are welcome to experience some foliage of Kepler - 186f in the enclosed outdoor sensory experience, along with water and sand areas.

Pictured here is one of two sensory escape pods. Like the sensory caves in the rainforest, they are filled with soft seating, each space is soundproofed and equipped with adjustable lights and control over sounds and volume