GKK Dental Ambulatory / x Architekten
Architects: x Architekten
Location: Oberösterreich, Austria
Client: APK Pensionskasse AG
Construction: Polycarbonate, PVC, Glass, Wood
Constructed Area: 525 sqm
Project Year: 2006-2008
Photographs: Max Nirnberger
Task:
The relocation of various businesses from the Voestalpine steel manufacturer’s premises included the dental clinic of the Upper Austrian regional medical insurance company. The nearby “Service Zone” was chosen as the new location. The task was to create a modern and service-oriented clinic on a 525 sqm plot which offers the dentists the best possible hygiene and functionality at work and which receives and guides the patients.
Draft:
The draft was defined by the clinic’s central theme, with the concept of a double row room structure for the extension, being derived from the two-dimensional illustration of a set of teeth. Five treatment rooms, as well as one room for prosthetic dentistry, are lined up next to each other on the southern side, benefiting fully from the natural sunlight. The separation of the rooms and their doorways are clearly defined by angular niches recessed into the walls that help guide the patients to their destination.
Several functional rooms such as X-ray, rest and sterilising rooms can be found opposite the treatment rooms. The general concept is also emphasised by the colours used. The ubiquitous use of the clinical colour white, accentuated by the mint-coloured Corporate-Identity-Green of the regional medical insurance company, is the perfect analogy for hygiene and fresh breath.
Implementation:
The general tone, created by the use of the colour white, is experienced by the visitor right from the doorstep. A white and soft PVC floor coating and a transparent back-lit ceiling made of polycarbonate web plates compensate for the reduced daylight in the hall and waiting area. The rolled-on pattern on the walls, as well as the mirrored “mouth hygiene” area with its display cabinets, completes the friendly and almost glamorous character. The latter was coated with acrylic glass rods reminiscent of the bristles of a toothbrush making it a success aesthetically as well as conceptually. This interpretation is successfully continued with a curved reception and seating area with desk and bench representing the throat, complemented by a red seating element as the tongue.
The dark wood veneer of Australian nut wood used for the desk and bench gives a warmth which counteracts the hygienic impression of the premises, disrupting the clinical theme and adding to the atmosphere. The high degree of technology typical of such a facility remains mostly in the background to produce surroundings that are considerate to the patient’s needs. It can only be seen through the translucent ceiling as well as the supply and exhaust air nozzles. The labeling and signposting of treatment and special rooms was also reduced and concentrated. The logical and clearly differentiated room structure demonstrates the recognizable success of the overall concept.
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yeah, i know i am going in to get drilled, no need to remind with me with the sterile environment.
and why is that dental assistant not wearing shoes? afraid to scuff up the floor?
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Nurses without shoes. Is that a studio for porn movies, or real dentist ambulance :)))))
Btw great design.
A quand le cabinet de proctologie…
Beautyful images but they don’t show the project (only the photographer’s skill). However the project is interesting.
Antiseptic vision of a dental office: http://bit.ly/vS8J6
While nice looking, I want my dentist’s office to comfort me before getting my teeth pulled. This doesn’t feel comforting.
“This interpretation is successfully continued with a curved reception and seating area with desk and bench representing the throat, complemented by a red seating element as the tongue.”
I’m wondering if they would ever be commissioned by a gynecologist?
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i´ve been there, design-idea of the office was good, building really bad, no detail is working, no material is like the photograph suggest´s; unfurtunatly a work ONLY for the first shot of the photographer, and this is more then “not enougth” for architecture…sorry,
As a supplier of premium grade cabinetry and casework,I would love to provide such interior design. Ed
I’m with ED
it’s very cool, if not a bit too sterile, even for that environment
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