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As a result, we were able to create an obstetrics and pediatric ICU department within the existing footprint.These adaptations have proven to be useful over the course of the season when creating dierent departments as they ome up in a given episode. ings ounty had a distintive red and bla asphalt tile oor running along their orridors. When the production built the sound stage sets, the oor pattern was repliated in the set hallways as well. It creates a maze pattern with an almost trane-induing eet during the long wal and talk hallway conversations and helps add to the situations that the characters have to overcome on the show. With the obstetrics and pediatrics having the same footprint as the ICU, the spaces took on a subliminally unrelenting uality that plays o the frustration of the characters often "going in circles" both emotionally and physically in the sets. As in actual hospitals, the footprints are often the same between dierent oors but the walls are both similar and dierent enough to be onfusing and disorienting. I was hoping that by creating dierenes among the similarities it would help the audiene empathie with the haraters experiences. The second season ended prematurely due to the COVID pandemic on March 13. As a result of the pandemi it was no longer possible to film at ings ounty ospital. Therefore the deision was made to build on stage some of the oes and elements that were lost from ings ounty for the third season. This gave the Art Department a unique opportunity to construct a hospital wing from the ground up. With connecting hallways and B C D E F