TUNNELFLIEGER
The ward and operating theatres of the Mainz Children’s Hospital are connected by a 200-meter-long underground corridor. Sixteen graduate students developed a playful staging that turns transport to the operating theatre into a soothing experience. From now on a virtual paper airplane will take the young patient on a journey and fly over him or her on a modular cloud cover developed especially for this purpose. The “Tunnelflieger” project was first made tangible at the Rhineland-Palatinate Exhibition 2016 in the form of a walk-in model and was realized in 2019 at the Children’s Hospital in Mainz.
University of Applied Sciences Mainz
| Team | Graduates „Kommunikation im Raum“ 2015/16 |
| Project Lead | Prof. Bernd Benninghoff Prof. Markus Pretnar |
| Media Informatics | Prof. Holger Reckter |
| Assistant | Benjamin Knichel |
| Site Management | Mathias Ewald |
Design Award Rhineland-Palatinate 2016
German Material Award “Materialpreis” 2017