G Clinic 7f by KORI architecture office

Square openings form a grid of tiny windows through the screens of this clinic for hair restoration and removal in Tokyo by Japanese studio KORI architecture office (+ slideshow).

G Clinic 7F by KORI architecture office

G Clinic 7f is an extension to an existing clinic, providing a floor that’s dedicated to male patients.

G Clinic 7F by KORI Architecture Office

The perforated screens separate seating areas in the reception and waiting room, where blue, green and black sofas add colour to an otherwise white space.

G Clinic 7F by KORI architecture office

Small squares also pierce holes in the surface of the reception desk and pale grey squares are painted onto the walls.

G Clinic 7F by KORI architecture office

Other clinics we’ve featured include a dental surgery with rounded walls and a clinic in a shopping centre.

G Clinic 7F by KORI architecture office

Photography is by Hiroshi Ueda.

G Clinic 7F by KORI architecture office

Here’s some text from KORI Architecture Office:


G Clinic 7F

After G clinic 8F was open, a doctor expanded floor space to 7th floor only for male hair restoration medical treatment because number of male patients increased more than a doctor expected.

G Clinic 7F by KORI architecture office

As for hair restoration medical treatment, the time doctor spends with a patient is short. So there are many patients who are waiting for consulting and accounting. The voids on MDF(t=15mm) panels are arranged as to control meeting of eyes of patients and staff.

G Clinic 7F by KORI architecture office

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Void patterns is expanded on the sliding door, shelfs and wall paper. These layered patterns give feel of depth and sense of privacy.

G Clinic 7F by KORI architecture office

Client: Dr. Kentaro Masaki
Design: Yushiro Arimoto, Maya Nishikori

G Clinic 7F by KORI architecture office

Built Area: 106.83m2
Realization: February 2012

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Obata Clinic by Hayato Komatsu Architects

O-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.

O-Clinic by Hayato Komatsu Architects

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.

O-Clinic by Hayato Komatsu Architects

The interior walls and ceiling are clad in strips of wood with an array of fluorescent tube lights on the sloping planes.

O-Clinic by Hayato Komatsu Architects

The clinic’s storefront façade provides passer-by’s with clear views into the clinic.

O-Clinic by Hayato Komatsu Architects

The treatment rooms are located at the rear of the space, carefully partitioned to prevent any direct views into them.

O-Clinic by Hayato Komatsu Architects

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O-Clinic by Hayato Komatsu Architects

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.

O-Clinic by Hayato Komatsu Architects

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.

O-Clinic by Hayato Komatsu Architects

So we inclined the ceiling to intonate the height, and we controlled the room space to adjust the volume of the room.

O-Clinic by Hayato Komatsu Architects

Furthermore, we made all the walls the same height and created space in between the walls and the ceiling like a partition style.

O-Clinic by Hayato Komatsu Architects

This showed the ceiling as “a big roof” spanning all rooms and so giving the space depth, brightness and a comfortable feeling.

O-Clinic by Hayato Komatsu Architects

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.

O-Clinic by Hayato Komatsu Architects

In total, it looks like a wooden Kura (a traditional Japanese storehouse), but we feel that this magnanimous space gives people repose and comfort.

O-Clinic by Hayato Komatsu Architects

Site: Hiroshima,JPN
Principal use: Clinic
Floor area: 174.58m²
Completion: Dec.2010


See also:

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GKK Dental Ambulatory by XarchitectenD.Vision Dental Clinic by A1ArchitectsBe Clinique by
Openlab Architects