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The OmniDirectional 내과 진료소 by Tetsuya Matsumoto

The OmniDirectional 내과 진료소 by Tetsuya Matsumoto is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 은상 in 건축, 건물 및 구조물 디자인 Competition Category.


은건축· 2021

The OmniDirectional 내과 진료소

by Tetsuya Matsumoto

Client: Toshi Naika Clinic

A' Design Award 은상 Winner in 건축 Category

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The Design

About The OmniDirectional 내과 진료소

OmniDirectional은 일본의 효고현 교외 마을에 위치한 내과 진료소입니다. 진료실의 핵심은 내시경실로, 공간적으로나 기능적으로나 자연스럽게 중앙에 위치합니다. 입구는 대기실의 중심축과 직접적으로 연결되어 있으며 리셉션 카운터로 끝나고 내시경실을 보여주는 유리 개구부가 이어집니다. 병원의 물성 역시 외부와 내부, 내시경실의 물성을 대비시켜 ​​건물의 핵심인 내시경실을 부각시키는 데 필수적인 역할을 한다.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 은상

The OmniDirectional 내과 진료소, 이 작품은 A' Design Award 은상 수상작으로, 최상급이며 아름답고 인상적인 디자인에 수여되는 비범하게 권위 있는 인정입니다. 은상 수상작은 대단히 뛰어나고 매우 창의적인 작품으로, 디자이너의 탁월한 전문 지식, 재능, 통찰력을 보여 줍니다. The OmniDirectional 내과 진료소, 이 작품은 훌륭한 대표작으로서 매우 전문적이고 깊이 있게 혁신적일 것으로 기대됩니다. 이 은상 수상 디자인은 예술, 과학, 디자인, 기술의 경계를 넓히는 데 이바지하는 주목할 만하고 찬사를 받는 발명품입니다. The OmniDirectional 내과 진료소, 이 작품은 모두가 부러워하는 창작물로서 욕망을 일깨우고 긍정적인 감정을 불러오며 경탄과 경이로움을 불러일으킵니다.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
The Omnidirectional is an internal medicine clinic designed to emphasize the specialty of the doctor, the endoscopy. The building is constructed using wooden structure in a standard Japanese grid. The endoscopy room occupied the center of the clinic both spatially and functionally and was made visible from the waiting room through a glazed wall behind the reception counter. The square shape of the clinic was placed laterally and its sides in stairs form resulting in a unified appearance.
Dimensions & Packaging
Gross Built Area: 203sqm
W20238mm x D20238mm x H3639mm
Tags
Japan, clinic, medical, OSB, wood, cement, geometrical, square, endoscopy, minimalism
Production Technology
The building is constructed using wooden structure in the form of a standard Japanese grid. To make the contrast between the interior and the exterior, the outside was covered in a newly created fiber cement panels. The interior walls were made using OSB panels and kept without any finish to create the warm wooden atmosphere. The floor was made using vinyl tiles with the same OSB motif printed. The endoscopy room was finished in white wallpaper and vinyl floor.
Design Challenge
The biggest challenge for this project was the very tight budget limiting the use of materials to the simplest and cheapest ones. The wooden structure was chosen as the most affordable construction system, followed by using OSB panels as a solution for using the cheapest product, unfinished and yet give character to the space. then the challenge was to counterbalance the OSB aesthetic with other materials both outside and inside, and how this would help emphasizing the endoscopy room.
Research
The research in this project was mainly focused on finding the possibilities to highlight the endoscopy room as the center piece of the clinic. The relationship between the different entities functionally and spatially, and how the ensemble could merge in a unified space. the research goes further into employing materiality to achieve aesthetic but also functional roles. How to make space transition using materiality and yet keeping the unity and coherence.
Inspiration
This design was inspired by the central functionality of the endoscopy in the doctor method, while compared to the geometrical properties of a square. The operational diagram makes clear connections with the disposition of spaces and the functional relation between each of them.
Project Duration
Project start: August 2019.
Construction start: February 2020.
Project/Construction End: July 2020.

Location: Taishi, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan.
Operation Flow
The entrance gives directly to the center of the waiting room where the reception desk is located. The endoscopy room visible through glass separation located behind the reception occupies the central part of the space. the waiting space gives to the examination area to the right and the treatment area to the left. these two spaces are both connected through the endoscopy room and through the backyard behind making a full space circulation.
Team Members
Tetsuya Matsumoto
Motoaki Takeuchi
Farid Ziani
Risa Iriyama
Mari Sugiyama
Image Credits
Image #1: photographer ©Stirling Elmendorf, The OmniDirectional, 2020.
Image #2: photographer ©Stirling Elmendorf, The OmniDirectional, 2020.
Image #3: photographer ©Stirling Elmendorf, The OmniDirectional, 2020.
Image #4: photographer ©Stirling Elmendorf, The OmniDirectional, 2020.
Image #5: photographer ©Stirling Elmendorf, The OmniDirectional, 2020.

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