The aim of de-escalation “calming” rooms is to allow the service user to enter an area where they can de-escalate from their current emotional state. This safe place reduces the chance of physical injury to both themselves and others.
Introducing muted colour in this environment can help provide a calming, quiet and low-stimulus space. This can be achieved using RGBW luminaires, which mix red, green, blue and white light to achieve an infinite palette of colours and intensities. To help reduce stress levels further, a non-institutional feel to these luminaires is important and they should produce a pleasant, diffused light.
