Erha Clinic Surabaya / HMP Architects

The building is a single mass with art deco style and modern touch. Building form
consisting of head, neck, and body. Vertical elements in art deco style is very strong.
This can be seen on the blades of the walls between windows, the height of the
window itself, and the lines of the balcony railing. Formal and rigid impression of a
symmetric elements are refined with the presence of the glass box at the entrance.
This modern glass box became a point of interest of the building, besides its main
function as a receiving room.

The selection of natural stone building materials for the exterior was chosen to give
the impression of exclusivity and professional, considering its function as a
commercial building which aims to attract visitors.

The building mass is placed away from the front site boundary to reduce the bulky
impression. The building is aesthetically more enjoyable from a considerable distance
because the proportion of single large-scale buildings and the height can be seen in
their entirety. Supported also by the existence of a city park in front of the site as a
roadblock, the city park can be a space to enjoy the beauty of the overall building
facade.The long canopy at the drop-off area is made to give the warm and welcoming
impression. The canopy serves as protection from rain and heat.

Neat city parks supports the harmony between the environment with the building
which also give formal impression. Natural lighting in the building is achieved through
the high windows installed in four sides of the building which also provides natural
ventilation for the building when needed.

This large scale clinic creates new lifestyle for society which will add value
for Surabaya city as a commercial center in East Java. It also completes the variety
needs of society and demands of specific health facilities.
Natasha Skin Care / TWS & Partners

Text description provided by the architects. The building is about 1,000 square meter
building coverage and located at the heart of the city in Bandung. The client want to
make something iconic for the architecture as it will be launch as their first new
building concept. The program will consist of huge lobby which also serve as a
reception and waiting area, a drug store, doctor's room and twenty two treatment
room. The other requirement is service and storage area which have to be attached
to the reception due to very high traffic between that two particular area

Base on the function and other basic requirement we try to generate a design theme
from the nature of human skin which is have a elastically and semi permeable
character. The skin is analogize with the building "skin" which using a curtain wall
using a laminated glass with a fabric inside, randomly mixed with some part using a
mirror at the inside. This mix of material give a sense of vibrant and translucent quality
as if it is a part of an outer surface of human skin.

The "skin" also "stretching" as a room program from inside and outside protruding the
"skin".This whole building is envelope by a very outer, hard skin which is analogize
by a part of perimeter wall and flat roof. The interior was arrange with a white,creamy
and goldish colour scheme to give an impression of clean, high tech, cozy and a touch
of exclusivity.

Using illuminated translucent acrylic box, the reception area is composed as a

parallel of two horizontal glowing box, running along until protruding the building
skin.The main stair to reach the treatment room at second floor is shaped with a
curvature line to symbolized feminism or beauty. Second floor composed with two
align corridor that leads to each rooms. Colour scheme is using white pallet as a
"canvas" and give a colour with the flower graphic artwork. Hanging glowing acrylic
box running along the ceiling corridor as an accent.

Castle Town Orthodontic Bruno / TSC Architects

Text description provided by the architects. This building is located in Nishio-shi,

Aichi where the taste of the castle town remains, Japan. We provided the open
space such as the park to the cityscape on planning a dental clinic on this ground
and wanted to contribute to local people.
And we read the historic background of the town and planned an adjoining building
using a local tile from the open space. This building leads eyes from the open space
to trees and the sky of the Shinto shrine and provides the place of peace to the
cityscape. We hope that people feel healing and the history.

In addition, the tile along with the orderliness images beautiful alignment of teeth.
We assume it the symbol of the thought of the dentist to think to want to do the help
of the smile by treatment.

In addition, We planned it to locate an inner garden in the waiting room, and to

become the extension of the scenery from the outside.

Smalto Dental Clinic / Yiorgos Hadjichristou Architects

Text description provided by the architects. The dental clinic accommodates the
needs of the owner- dentist and responds to the needs of the city. It is located on
the main urban artery of Strovolos, along the linear green park, the riverbed of
Pediaios torrent. The plots of the avenue block the city from the greenery as they
usually accommodate expensive how rooms on the ground floor.

The basement accommodates all the utility and mechanical spaces. The ground
floor functions as the parking area and an event space and enjoys 2-story height.
The main entrance of the Dental Clinic is placed on the 2nd floor. The lobby, even
small in footprint manages to connect the visitors to all the levels of the clinic and
both the densely built and natural environments of the city. The last floor is
proposed as an undefined space, and it is currently used as a studio.

All the spaces enjoy uninterrupted views to the city and merge into the
greenery. Concept – Context and Strategy: The building is raised up freeing the
ground floor, so the city is reconnected with the green urban recreational area. The
ascending is proposed as sets of stairs and platforms that offer a continuation of
the park thematic into the belly of the building. The vertical circulation is interwoven
with the spaces facilitating social informal interactions, and thus triggering vivid
momentums of diverse interior and exterior contacts.
An experimental evolution of the courtyard typology is incised at unexpected
internal fragments, as the heart of the building that welcomes the act of
ascending, or the children central area surrounded by a sequence of official and
unofficial, indoor and outdoor spatial entities. The fluid network of spaces is
punctuated by a variety of heights that enable the spatial blurring of functions
and establish surprising indulging of the experiencing of the building. The users
can choreograph the skin of the building accordingly to the weather, functional,
personal and other needs. The casted light and the ever-changing shadow game
from the perforated sliding shading panels animate and enrich the spaces with
abundance of weather reflections.

Construction – Materials and Structure: The six-story building is located on

uneven plot with access to a road and a pedestrian way. It consists of a concrete
basement that is semi-underground. The basement consists of concrete
foundation slab, concrete columns, beams, slabs and retaining walls on the three
sites. From the ground floor and above the building continues us a composite
steel frame structure. It consists of seven main columns and a grid of steel I-
beams witch extend to form three meters cantilever parametrical composites
slaps with trapezoidal deck and 130 mm rainforest concrete. The main entrance
lobe, the relevant staircases and connecting platforms are suspended from the
beams of the first floor in an arrangement that allows the absent of columns on
the ground floor and the unobstructed flow of vehicles of the parking area
beneath it. On each of the upper floors, there are several voids and intermediate
staircases connecting the secondary levels between them. The steel structure is
reinforce with V shape bracings in certain positions. The shading steel panels
consist of various dimensions of perforation offering an always-altering shadow
indulging playfulness.