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UCSF School of Dentistry Pediatric Operatories

Kuth Ranieri Architects

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Healthcare Centre
5.07
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Howard Duffy
Howard Duffy Founder at HTDSTUDIO Arkitekter AB
These community impact projects are...
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5.75
Sam McMorran
Sam McMorran Strategy and Design Director at IDEO
Nice simple way to add a sense of d...
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6.5
Lauren Touhey-Otto
Lauren Touhey-Otto Head of Design at Kinzo Architekten GmbH
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5.25
Bhavin Taylor
Bhavin Taylor Founder / Interior Designer at Bhavin Taylor Design
Love the warmth that has been added...
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6.75
Mark Anderson
Mark Anderson Architect at Mark Anderson Design
Good functional solution responding...
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Vicki Spielmann
Vicki Spielmann Group Creative Lead, Head of Brand Experience at Google
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4
6.75
Tracey Wiles
Tracey Wiles Principal at woods bagot
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5
Nic Lee
Nic Lee Design Director at Waterfrom Design Co., Ltd
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4.5
Vivian van Schagen
Vivian van Schagen Founder at The Invisible Party
The color and artworks add an eleme...
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6.25
Puri Lighting Design
Puri Lighting Design Design Director at Beijing Puri Lighting Design
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5
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Hana Ahriz
Hana Ahriz Co-founder at Space & Pepper
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4.75
Franziska Heuschkel
Franziska Heuschkel Founder at Space & Pepper
Looking through a user-centric lens...
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6.5
Agnes Kwek
Agnes Kwek Design Ambassador at DesignSingapore Council
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4.5
John Allsopp
John Allsopp Architect at John Allsopp Studio
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4.75
Client
Division of Pediatric Dentistry, University of California - San Francisco
Floor area
84 ㎡
Completion
2020
Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, Low-Voltage Engineers
Structural Engineer
Specifications
General Contractor
Illustrator/Artist
Photographer

An interior renovation of a teaching clinic for pediatric dentistry, designed to enlarge a small suite through an open floor plan with translucent partitions. The renovation design concept for the Pediatric Dentistry department at University of California, San Francisco is to make a small suite feel spacious through an open floor plan while providing screening elements for privacy, enriched with imagery for a family-friendly environment. The project scope consisted of replacing two suites of four operatories with one suite of eight operatories while also upgrading to state-of-the-art equipment and creating the feel of a private practice office within a public university campus. Translucent partitions are an important design element introduced to create a warm glow within a space with no access to natural light. The custom partitions depict various illustrative scenes from a classic children’s book, This is San Francisco by Miroslav Šašek, donated by the Šašek Foundation, custodians of the artwork. The flooring and translucent panels are both “red-list free” products: they are low-VOC, derived from plants, and do not contain chemicals on a list of worst-in-class building industry products known to harm the environment and human health.