South Korean clinic designed to advertise “bond of sympathy” between sufferers

Seoul studio By Seog Be Seog makes use of a palette of heat supplies and soothing colors to create a sense of familiarity throughout the Aeichi Korean Medical Clinic in South Korea.

Jun-woong Seog, founding father of design studio By Seog Be Seog, wished to create an inside the place sufferers might really feel relaxed and in a position to discuss overtly about their well being issues.

Positioned in Yongin, a significant metropolis south of Seoul in South Korea’s Gyeonggi Province, the Aeichi Korean Medical Clinic is a small observe providing sufferers conventional Korean medication therapies.

“The extra conferences we had, I got here to suppose that greater than one thing being pressured, issues that may be felt within the coronary heart and soak in naturally depart an extended lasting impression,” defined Seog.

“I began designing hoping for the house to develop into a spot the place the sufferers who come to the medication clinic really feel peaceable and are in a position to speak about all the pieces overtly.”

To determine this sense of openness, the design studio started by simplifying the construction of the house. All superfluous ornament was eliminated, leaving solely structural components.

“We wished the message given by the construction of the clinic to be concise and easy. It didn’t want any florid language,” mentioned the studio.

The result’s an open-plan reception and ready space with uncovered concrete ceilings with white partitions.

Translucent timber-frame screens cowl the home windows filtering the glare from direct daylight whereas nonetheless permitting daylight to penetrate via the house all through the day.

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“Exterior gentle can permeate into the house with out disturbing the environment and in addition permits sufferers to naturally observe the adjustments in gentle within the house all through the day,” mentioned Seog.

“As well as, the partitions are partially opened and doorways are minimised to people who are strictly needed.”

The designers mentioned pure supplies equivalent to warm-toned wooden and speckled stone have been used to create a sense of familiarity.

“New and attention-grabbing supplies proceed to emerge, however I assumed acquainted and pleasant supplies corresponded higher with the message of the clinic,” mentioned Seog.

A curving glass wall on the entrance in addition to furnishings and fixtures, equivalent to a shelving system with an open framework and an extended kitchen-counter with bar-stool seating, are used to delineate completely different zones throughout the house whereas sustaining the sensation of openness.

A raised, timber platform within the nook of the room by the window is wrapped by the translucent screens creating an space of privateness for quiet reflection.

Remedy rooms are distributed alongside a winding white hall that leads off from the ready room space.

The studio hopes that the open-plan ready room design with its open kitchen space will assist sufferers to really feel higher linked to one another, enabling “an emotional communication or bond of sympathy”.

The peaceable design has been shortlisted for a Dezeen Award within the leisure and wellness inside class. Amongst others, will probably be up in opposition to a holistic spa by DecaArchitecture, which is carved right into a Greek mountain.

Pictures is by Choi Yong Joon.