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Obata Clinic by Hayato Komatsu Architects
Japanese architect Hayato Komatsu has completed the interiors for this clinic in Hiroshima, Japan, which is located within a shopping centre.
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Due to the height of the original space, the architect has inserted a gabled ceiling to create a more intimate atmosphere and has left the walls of the treatment rooms slightly shorter, making a feature of the sloping ceiling.
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The interior walls and ceiling are clad in strips of wood with an array of fluorescent tube lights on the sloping planes.
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The clinic's storefront façade provides passer-by's with clear views into the clinic.
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The treatment rooms are located at the rear of the space, carefully partitioned to prevent any direct views into them.
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Here's some more information from the architect:
[O-clinic by Hayato Komatsu Architects]
This project is a plan for moving and reopening an internal clinic in a shopping mall on the outskirts of Hiroshima. The shopping mall has a high ceiling and, therefore, so does the clinic that occupies space within it.
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The clinic’s surrounding corridors are bustling with shoppers. The client requested to make good use of the high ceiling. However, keeping the open space increases the risk of heating/cooling and ventilation problems.
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So we inclined the ceiling to intonate the height, and we controlled the room space to adjust the volume of the room.
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Furthermore, we made all the walls the same height and created space in between the walls and the ceiling like a partition style.
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This showed the ceiling as “a big roof” spanning all rooms and so giving the space depth, brightness and a comfortable feeling.
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In considering the privacy of people coming into the clinic, we managed, without closing the facade, to arrange each room to allow in light but yet in such a way to stop the direct view of outsiders.
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In total, it looks like a wooden Kura (a traditional Japanese storehouse), but we feel that this magnanimous space gives people repose and comfort.
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Site: Hiroshima,JPN
Principal use: Clinic
Floor area: 174.58m²
Completion: Dec.2010
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