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YPMD Pediatric Neurology Clinic

Synthesis Design + Architecture

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Client
Dr. Ying Peng MD
Floor area
240.00 ㎡
Completion
2019

The YPMD pediatric neurology clinic challenges the banality of the typical utilitarian medical clinic with a unique design that incorporates color, texture, and geometry to create a lively experience for both patients and staff. The programmatic organization of the project divides the project into three zones of occupation - an open plan reception and waiting lounge for visiting patients wraps a series of color-coded exam rooms, which are flanked by a back-of-house circulation corridor and staff spaces. This organizational strategy purposefully segregates staff and patient circulation paths, allowing the doctor and her staff to move between exam rooms freely without being disturbed by waiting patients, while offering patients ample waiting space and express check-out circulation. The identity of the clinic is defined by the generous reception and waiting lounge, where dynamic and playful, origami-inspired geometries are paired with bespoke patterns and textures to add both visual and tactile interest for children suffering for neurological disorders. The reception area includes a custom solid surface reception desk and a graphic feature wall that is computationally abstracted from a CT scan of a human brain and CNC-milled to reveal the layers of wood below. The waiting lounge millwork is thickened to create built-in seating that is clad in dense acoustic felt to provide a soft ergonomic surface and acoustic absorption.