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Fitzgerald Private Clinic

Kingston Lafferty Design

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View of the retail and reception. It was all about balance and harmony of materials with this design, a balance of masculine and feminine, soft and hard, light and dark, sterile, clinical and warm and welcoming. The material palette was the starting point for this. We wanted to challenge the way clinics are often approached and merge deliberately contrasting or clashing elements to get an unexpected and unusual end result, one that is memorable and pleasantly surprising. - Photo by Ruth Maria Murphy. Design by Kingston Lafferty Design
The waiting area is framed in an archway of strong monochromatic terrazzo with molded cement seating arched inset the plaster tube wall with leather seat pad. Full wall of mirror adds a dramatic effect and enhances the feeling of space. - Photo by Ruth Maria Murphy. Design by Kingston Lafferty Design
The design is very special and one off – a high end boutique experience. We wanted it to be truly a unique experience for all that visit it and incomparable to other clinics and truly unique, made with quality materials that would stand the test of time and not date or wear over time. With that in mind, the layout sought to encourage visitors to engage at all stages of their journey throughout the space, both as a retail customer and as client for the clinic. We wanted the different surfaces to be tactile and combined in unexpected ways, almost calling for people to reach out and touch and for everything to appear as though it was formed from the structure of the building, as though it was all meant to be there. The arch is the strongest element that frames the clinic experience, also highlighting the sales and reception desk - Photo by Ruth Maria Murphy. Design by Kingston Lafferty Design
View of the retail and reception. It was all about balance and harmony of materials with this design, a balance of masculine and feminine, soft and hard, light and dark, sterile, clinical and warm and welcoming. The material palette was the starting point for this. We wanted to challenge the way clinics are often approached and merge deliberately contrasting or clashing elements to get an unexpected and unusual end result, one that is memorable and pleasantly surprising. - Photo by Ruth Maria Murphy. Design by Kingston Lafferty Design

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Innovation
Functionality
Creativity
Eco-Social Impact
Total
JURY VOTES
Healthcare Centre
5.82
5.64
6.82
4.82
5.77
Nathan Watts
Nathan Watts Creative Director at Interstore
4
4
6
4
4.5
Simon Goff
Simon Goff Founder and Director at Floor_Story
7
5
8
5
6.25
Lorcan O'Herlihy
Lorcan O'Herlihy Founder, Design Principal at Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects [LOHA]
7
6
7
5
6.25
Nic Granleese
Nic Granleese CEO and Cofounder at BowerBird
5
6
6
5
5.5
Ting Yu
Ting Yu Chief Architect at Wutopia Lab
5
6
6
5
5.5
Frank Lee
Frank Lee Founder and President at Shanghai Fengyuzhu Culture Technology
7
6
8
5
6.5
Janne van Berlo
Janne van Berlo Founder at Atelier van Berlo
6
6
6
4
5.5
Tobias Geisler
Tobias Geisler Cofounder at VAVE Studio
6
6
6
5
5.75
Julio Kowalenko
Julio Kowalenko Cofounder at Atelier Caracas
5
6
7
5
5.75
Jeff Yrazabal
Jeff Yrazabal President at SRG Partnership
5
5
7
5
5.5
Akanksha Deo Sharma
Akanksha Deo Sharma Designer at Ikea
7
6
8
5
6.5
Client
Deirdre Fitzgerald
Floor area
92 ㎡
Completion
2020
Fit out company
Marble and onyx supplier
Polished concrete, polished plaster and terrazzo
Main contractor
Supplier of decorative lighting and furniture as specified by Kingston Lafferty Design
Tile supplier

THERE IS BEAUTY IN SIMPLICITY Self care is something that is a key focus within our society. More and more, people are looking for moments of calm and serenity amidst their hectic and fast paced life styles. Taking time to take care of you is more important and more accepted than before. KLD took on the Fitzgerald Private Clinic project in Dublin city centre, seeking to capture and reflect the brand ethos by creating an environment that captures this essence of calm and quiet, of refined luxury and indulgence in a subtle and comforting way, whilst showcasing excellence and high end service and product. Fitzgerald Private Clinic focuses on excellence and medical expertise and standard in a saturated market when often quality can be overlooked and undervalued, where speed and low prices can draw people in. Fitzgerald Private Clinic pride themselves on their individual medical backgrounds, with all three Fitzgerald sisters being qualified and experienced doctors. They wanted to create a new experience for their customers and patients and open a dedicated high end aesthetic, skin clinic in the heart of the city. Everything about their brand and ethos is about expertise, quality service and medical grade care; they wanted this high standard of quality to shine through with the finished environment and to instill trust in their customers from the instant they stepped foot inside. The service offer is premium and luxury and the spaces that encapsulate it were designed to echo that at every touch point. We wanted to design a space that was tactile and all encompassing, with a sense of other worldliness; incorporating in associations of cleanliness and sterility with a balance of warmth. Taking influence from the service offering and natural elements, the new design defines the functions of retail and beauty clinic in an inviting and experiential way with both the spatial layout leading you through the journey of the building as well as the transitions of materials. The spaces sit harmoniously side by side and cocoon the visitor in a warm, tactile and calming environment, inviting them to spend a while and making them look forward to coming back. The tone of the spaces is soft and cocooning, relaxed, inviting and light. The palette takes reference from the elements in nature, water, air and precious materials with subtle references to the delicacy and fragility of beauty and skin in an authentic way, drawing on tactility layering fabrics, glass and stone. Good design is about balance and harmony. We sought to achieve this by contrasting the hard, raw elements with a femininity and softness to cocoon and comfort. We sought to create an inviting atmosphere and environment that draws the visitor in and encourages them to spend a while, merging marble, steel, polished plaster, concrete, timber, leather and mirror for a balanced depth. For me, small, confined spaces can often be the most exciting with the most potential and with only 92 square metres, this was a compact and difficult footprint with a lot of elements to house inside. There is pleasure facing the challenge of spatial restrictions and fulfilling multiple functionalities as well as resulting in a harmonious atmosphere. It makes the project begin like a jigsaw that needs to be figured out. The size of this space was very small, so every detail became even more important to get right as every detail is on show whilst serving its function.