Aurea Health Office by Dilek Karaman is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.
BronzeInterior· 2026
Aurea Health Office
Client: Dk Interior Architecture
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category
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About Aurea Health Office
Aurea Health Office is a 2000 sqm medical workplace organized around clarity, confidentiality, and efficiency. A central circulation spine links reception, shared work areas, and enclosed meeting rooms, enabling intuitive navigation with minimal signage. Modular workstations integrate power and data for flexibility. Acoustic ceilings and defined collaboration zones support focus. An oculus inspired lounge ceiling and a boardroom with a suspended acoustic raft establish identity. Cleanable stone, warm timber, controlled lighting, and biophilic elements create a calm clinical setting.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Aurea Health Office is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Aurea Health Office is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Aurea Health Office splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
The main principle behind Aurea Health Office is calm clarity. Healthcare workplaces require focus, trust, confidentiality and operational efficiency, so the design was inspired by the idea of creating a clear spatial journey from public to private. Light, texture and soft transitions are used as guiding tools rather than decorative elements. The concept balances openness with protected edges, creating a workplace that feels professional, welcoming and emotionally calm while supporting the demanding rhythm of a medical environment.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
My main focus was to create a medical workplace that feels calm and premium without losing clinical clarity. I wanted to achieve a balance between privacy and collaboration, hygiene and warmth, efficiency and atmosphere. The project needed to support daily work, meetings, consultation and multidisciplinary discussions while remaining visually clean and intuitive. Through clear zoning, acoustic control, glare-controlled lighting and durable materials, the design aims to reduce stress and improve comfort for staff, visitors and users.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
My future plan is to use Aurea Health Office as a reference for future healthcare and workplace interiors that require both operational discipline and emotional comfort. The project opens valuable questions about how medical environments can become more welcoming, flexible and human-centered. I would like to continue developing this design approach through modular workplace systems, acoustic solutions, biophilic elements, refined lighting and durable material assemblies that support long-term use.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Aurea Health Office is a 2000 square meter medical workplace organized by a clear circulation spine linking arrival, shared open office, and decision zones. Modular work bays with integrated power and acoustic control support flexible teamwork. An oculus like lounge ceiling and a boardroom with suspended acoustic raft and linear lighting anchor orientation. Biophilic inserts and textured surfaces add calm while meeting clinical standards.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The office spans a total area of 2000 square meters and includes reception and a waiting lounge, a large open shared work area, a major boardroom, focus rooms, executive offices, and support and storage spaces. Lighting is layered to maintain comfort and clarity, combining ambient ceiling glow, linear wayfinding traces, task lighting, and wall washing to minimize glare. Privacy and acoustic performance are achieved through clear zoning, soft seating clusters, and controlled enclosure for meeting and focus rooms, ensuring both collaboration and confidentiality.
- Tags
- medical office interior, healthcare workplace, Istanbul office design, open plan shared workspace, boardroom design, biophilic office, acoustic ceiling systems, integrated linear lighting, clean detail architecture, quiet luxury interior
- Production Technology
- The project is delivered through a modular workplace kit that allows the open shared office to remain flexible over time. Open office partitions integrate lighting, power, and data distribution to keep floors and ceilings visually clean, while acoustic ceiling rafts and slatted zones reduce reverberation across the boardroom and collaborative areas. Linear LED systems are calibrated with dimmable scenes for consultation, meeting, and daily work modes. High touch zones use durable, easy-clean finishes with concealed skirting and crisp junction detailing, and biophilic elements are integrated as planting pockets and backlit green walls with planned service access for maintenance.
- Design Challenge
- The main challenge was achieving a welcoming, hospitality level atmosphere without losing clinical clarity. This required tight coordination between lighting, ceiling geometry, services integration, and acoustic control, especially in the large meeting room and the open shared office where noise, reflections, and visual clutter can quickly reduce comfort.
- Research
- The project investigates how a medical workplace can feel calm and premium while meeting the operational needs of privacy, hygiene, and high frequency use. Studies focused on glare control, acoustic comfort, zoning logic, and durable material assemblies that maintain a refined appearance over time.
- Inspiration
- The concept is built on calm clarity. Healthcare work demands focus, trust, and confidentiality, so the interior balances openness with protected edges. Light is treated as a guide, using continuous lines and soft ambient volumes to create an intuitive, stress reduced movement from public to private.
- Project Duration
- Istanbul, Turkey, 2024 to 2025
- Operation Flow
- Visitors arrive into a calm reception lounge, then transition along a legible route toward shared work and meeting areas. The open office supports day to day collaboration, while the boardroom operates as a formal decision hub, enabling presentations and multidisciplinary discussions with clear sightlines, balanced acoustics, and glare controlled lighting.
- Team Members
- Dilek Karaman
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