Impress dental clinic in Barcelona options smile-shaped timber partitions

Pine-wood partition partitions that curve upwards like smiles carve up the inside of this dental clinic in Barcelona, Spain, designed by Raúl Sanchez Architects.

Impress is unfold throughout the bottom and basement degree of a historic constructing on the coronary heart of Barcelona.

The clinic differentiates itself from different dentists by providing on-line therapies that scale back the necessity for face-to-face visits.

Native studio Raúl Sanchez Architects was requested by Impress to create a “contemporary” design befitting of the model’s younger buyer base.

Eschewing the everyday white and sterile atmosphere that’s generally present in dentists, the studio opted to erect a collection of swooping pine partitions that recall the clinic’s smile-shaped emblem.

Curving up from the bottom ground to a mezzanine degree, the partitions cease slightly below the clinic ceiling.

They conceal two therapy rooms and a rest room.

“The geometry of those partitions relies on circumference curves that go as much as take the peak of the higher ground, rising the sense of depth and area by creating totally different ‘curtains’ in area,” stated the studio.

“Whereas nearly the complete inside is a single open area, the mandatory visible privateness is revered by controlling the heights and views from every area, what additionally creates expectation and shock about what’s on the opposite facet of every wall.”

The partitions are set two metres again from the clinic’s facade to create a reception space within the entryway.

The facade consists of two massive, stainless steel-framed home windows divided within the centre by an ornate column.

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Diagonal crossbars run throughout each home windows, dividing the glass panes into two totally different floor finishes – one facet is clear, the opposite is opaque.

From the reception space, a staircase that sits to the left of the curving pine partitions guides prospects as much as the mezzanine degree.

A triple-height gentle properly on the rear of the constructing funnels pure gentle into the basement, which comprises employees lockers, a small workplace, a kitchenette and cupboard space.

An x-ray room can be situated on the rear of the bottom ground, accessed by way of a glass walkway that cuts by the lightwell.

The architects defined that pine was chosen because the dominant materials because it “provides an uncommon heat in a dental clinic”.

Elsewhere, Impress’s signature pink, blue and gray model colors are used to focus on totally different parts of the in any other case impartial inside.

For instance, current structural parts are painted gray and the wall that strains the staircase is clad with bright-red sheets of fluted steel. The wall above the doorway has then been painted blue and the ceramic ground tiles are completed with pink grout.

A neon signal of the clinic’s identify was additionally added to create a “required nook for Instagram pics”.

Raúl Sanchez Architects isn’t the primary studio to create another inside for a dental apply.

Studio Karhard – the designers of famend techno nightclub Berghain – put in light-up partitions, mirrored partitions, and vibrant stone surfaces to channel a “cool bar” aesthetic inside The City Dentist in Berlin.

Images is by José Hevia.