Architecture for Modern Dental Clinic and Residential Building in Nagano, Japan: Hiroki Tanabe
December 5, 2009 | Posted by HomeZooka.com
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This is a complex building that consists of a dental clinic and a dentist residence, located in the suburbs of Nagano, Japan this site was surrounded by a rice fields and reach orchards.
The house was built using a concrete plate 300 millimeters thick forms zigzag structure.
Each shell has different functions inside, residence, clinic and waiting lounge.
In each courtyard two glass boxes are set and used as pathways and entry halls between two adjacent shells.
The residence and the waiting lounge designed being separated, for the dwellers the residence is the space for relaxation separated from working place and for the patients, the waiting lounge is the space for relaxation kept off from anxiety about dental care.
See the floorplan and section at the end of this post for more detail about the room organizing. Architect: Hiroki Tanabe.
However, Japanese urban planning law in this area requires combining new-built residences with public functions structurally.
Building an individual residence newly is not allowed. One-piece zigzag structure fulfills both functional separation and structural combination.
The interior is build with timber and light-gauge steel, if necessary, it can be remodeled without any structural constraints.
Now the interior is designed to be used as clinic, but in the future, it will be redesigned for other functions.
Now wide opening in the clinic offers a great view of the farm village and allays patient’s anxiety and comfort the pain of dental care, but in the future, it may be covered with a wall in some functions.
The two open courtyards can be converted from exterior into interior. This project is designed for the sustainability of both structure and function.
In the evening, indoor lighting overflows from three glass openings (height 2.6m, width 10m and 3.3m).
They become three huge lighting installations. The residence and waiting lounge emit soft lights with low color temperature of incandescent lamps.
The clinic inserted into by them emits a gorgeous light with high color temperature of fluorescent lamps.
The lighting installations with two kinds of expression are located in a line by turns and contrast with each other.
They emerge from darkness, harmonizing with the calm night of beautiful farm village.
Visit Hiroki Tanabe website at www.hirokitanabe.com for more detailed information.
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