![O Dispensing Pharmacy / ninkipen! - Beam](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/530f/e965/c07a/80ed/3b00/0216/newsletter/140110_01.jpg?1393551690)
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Architects: ninkipen!
- Area: 172 m²
- Year: 2013
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Photographs:Hiroki Kawata
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Text description provided by the architects. This is a new construction for a pharmacy in front of a general hospital.
![O Dispensing Pharmacy / ninkipen! - Wood, Beam](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/530f/ea55/c07a/802c/7600/01cd/newsletter/140110_07.jpg?1393551933)
We considered how the architecture it self could become a symbol in the town, but unlike other pharmacies filling the streets with big, showy graphic signage.
![O Dispensing Pharmacy / ninkipen! - Beam, Windows, Steel, Handrail](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/530f/ea0b/c07a/80ed/3b00/0217/newsletter/140110_05.jpg?1393551854)
A single sloping roof you can see from the street is made of timber and it will be completely covered with grass in a few years. We lowered the edge of the eaves like the surrounding eaves and made the ceiling continue from there to the second floor with a truss with steel diagonal rods. You can look around to the sky on the other side when you enter the pharmacy.
![O Dispensing Pharmacy / ninkipen! - Beam, Handrail](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/530f/ea0f/c07a/802c/7600/01cc/newsletter/140110_06.jpg?1393551862)
We think the warm timber ceiling on the back of the roof will gently greet the people coming in for medicine.
![O Dispensing Pharmacy / ninkipen! - Image 12 of 14](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/530f/ec38/c07a/80ed/3b00/021b/newsletter/Second_Floor_Plan.jpg?1393552423)
We are happy if citizens remember this as ‘the Wood Roofed Pharmacy’ and for them this becomes a virgin landscape of pharmacy.