Dental clinic

This project is based on a complete refurbishment of an existing commercial space in the center of San Juan de Alicante (Alicante, Spain). The program required a waiting room, exam rooms and other medical services, offices and auxiliary spaces linked to the different rooms. It was a challenge to fit all the needs of the program with such elongated proportions. The purpose was to avoid the feeling of narrowness through all this long corridor. First of all we find the waiting room, conceived as a cozy and comfortable place. To achieve this, we used wood in the pavement, hanging vegetation and a large window that allows a visual connection to the outside. The reception is perceived as a privileged point of reference from which to cont... More

You can find Yokoi dental clinic in Aichi prefecture. Site is located at the intersection of the residential area. To become an icon and be well liked by the community, we minimised signs and advertisements. We kept the design simple and clean, a white box with assorted square windows to capture people’ s attention. Inside, you can feel the light from these and the skylights above, which gives you the impression of being in a more spacious waiting area. In the consultation room, to make patients more relaxed, we embedded lights into the beam structures. This provides both direct functional lighting for dentists at work, as well as diffusing into the wider room to brighten up the space around each beam. More

The dental clinic presents an almost rectangular typology ground plan. The entrance gate is located right in the middle, and in front of which a sculptural counter is designed. This piece besides fulfilling the function of reception also articulates the space, leaving on one side the waiting area, services and office, and in the other the area cabinets. Beyond the curtain wall of the main façade, facing the Felix Pizcueta street, there are three cabinets, one sterilization room and the main office. The large windows frame a neo-Gothic building, resulting an interesting synergy that contrasts with the pure lines and the neutral tones of the clinic. The used materials provide a great spatiality, for the soil a continuous gray pavement, whos... More

Gestion immobilière 1650 recently held the official inauguration of a 3,700 m2 mixed-use building, Le 1650. The multidisciplinary firm, A2DESIGN, developed the plans for the entire structure in addition to overseeing its actual construction. Le 1650 includes a main level available for lease, while the 1st and 2nd floors house clinics belonging to co-owners, Dr. Daniel Godin, orthodontist, and Dr. Alain St-Onge, dentist. Crowning this new facility is a sweeping rooftop terrace, adjacent to a conference room fashioned for training purposes. The idea was to create and build a modern facility, bold in design with a unique signature style and sharp angles to clearly distinguish the final product, while maintaining a simple sober look for a... More

A perimeter volume (?) layout that allows us to maximize solar exposure and views, creating a central space, Patio Mayor, a unique integrative (study) design for university life. The regional headquarters of the Andres Bello University is located in the coastal city of Vina del Mar in the V Region of Chile. It lies in a temperate climate zone with a prolonged cloudy dry season and rainy winter which is strongly influenced by the Pacific Ocean, generating low temperature fluctuations during the year. The average temperature difference between the warmest and the coldest month is only 5° to 6° C and the daily maximum and minimum temperatures vary between 7 ° C in summer and only 5 ° C in winter. Additionally the Humboldt Ocean Current, whi... More

What if… we made magic in Sydney? On one of Sydney’s high-end retail streets, we were invited to design a high-level state-of-the-art dental clinic. The actual space and the brief provided by the client posed a few challenges that got us thinking. An aesthetic is something that may be mistaken as an additional almost cosmetic layer to a design, but in our projects, the aesthetic is a clear response to problem-solving. In this particular case, the client requested two receptions with two entrances that could function separately but without compromising the sense of spaciousness and its relationship with people passing by. In the same space, we also had a stubborn structural column that seemed to impose itself in all the attemp... More

This is a dental clinic project in the city center of Porto, Portugal. There are plenty of tile rendered buildings in this area and the design concept of this clinic is inspired by one of the typical tile patterns with windmill shape. Interior walls are finished with this windmill pattern. This pattern is applied to the Illumination and the furniture. Portuguese fabric made of wool called Burel is used as acoustic and adsorptive material on several walls. More

The project of DENTALPRAXIS dental clinic was devised on an open construction field in a neat rectangular urban tissue placed in a residential area close to the city suburbs. The idea of the project came along with setting the location – a “carious” field – in the urban tissue mentioned above, hence having a chamfered side. The idea was to functionally reconfigure this lot, starting from requirements set by the dental medical functions. As a rule, the dental act specializes in characteristic and distinctive cases, each activity focusing on an individual at a time. Similarly, the site problems designed the customary solution: the typology of openings, the imbedment of the new structure, the specific operations suffered by the original block,... More

Working from high contrast and simple natural materials, the firm la SHED architecture have designed a unique optometrist and optician clinic redefining the customer’s experience. The commercial space was designed as an atelier-boutique, characterized by low display tables in the open area, avoiding any visual obstruction. Looking for frames becomes the opportunity of a friendly exchange, underneath the bright ceiling, composed of wooden slats installed randomly. With the goal of giving their enterprise a breath of fresh air, the associates of L’Aire Visuelle sought to create a new corporate image based on the state-of-the-art products and techniques that they offer, as well as the quality and expertise of the services they provide. The... More

The buildings look like a set of building blocks piled up to the brink of collapsing, but they do not fall down even though it seemslike they could at any moment. They consist of a dental clinic and a house, which were built in a residential area in a suburb of Hachioji—a city located in the western part of Tokyo. The building site was previously a field, and we planned to construct a dental clinic,a house, a garage for two cars, and a parking lot for seven patients’cars at the site, which was spacious enough to accommodate all these structures and provide a comfortable working and living environment. Locating the garage and the parking lot close to the road that runs in front of the clinic makes them easiest to use if the need to put... More

Light-filled and spacious, this implant and surgical unit is independent of yet contiguous with the existing, more conventional NHS dental clinic. Key design concerns were state-of-the-art ergonomic efficiency and cross infection control, as achieved using a planning approach and purpose-designed fittings perfected in a series of prior projects. Also important are the abundant natural light and the serene atmosphere in both the warmly wood-floored patient areas and the more clinical surgeries and staff-only zones. The design and fit-out of the clinic to not only ensure optimal ergonomics and efficiency, and control cross infection, but also to enhance the whole experience of being there for patients, dentists and dental staff. He felt th... More

Clinic in Onomichi is a dental clinic near Onomichi station. Large skylights on the north side make the office space light and airy. From outside, people can see a building structure through the skylights, and the building creates one aspect of the townscape. More

Brisk clouds are drawn clearly on the glass of the dental clinic at daytime. At sunset, they change into faint, washy mist like lines of smoke. The surface is double structure. A sheet with clouds design is attached on the outside glass, also the same design is printed on the inside PVC sheet. Besides, putting the indirect illumination between films, magical perspectives occur when you see the building from the front. This is such a visional presentation as Japanese traditional bed net, Kaya. However, for the patients' privacy, the part where the treatment rooms are behind is graded washed. The inside of the clinic is filled with an invigorating open space that is enhanced by the 4.5m high rooftop. There, three towering columns are ancho... More

In this new project, Sensory order, Susanna breaks the taboos to create a space far from the conventional: a metaphor that goes from disorder to order through design, materials and a white and organic palette, the latter being the interior designer’s distinctive signature. Minimally invasive design for a dental clinic The designing team lead by Susanna has been able to create an atmosphere of calm in a dental clinic by projecting a space in which the volumes, the sturdiness of solid wood and the unexpected presence of Nature in the form of vertical gardens, welcome patients to a world far from the traditional dentist. The reception area catches the eye with its combination of asymmetric, 15 metre long wooden volumes that represent... More