Calm the World Tandklinik by Matt Liao is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award i Järn in Interiör- och Utställningsdesign Competition Category.

JärnInteriör· 2020

Calm the World Tandklinik

by Matt Liao

Client: D.More Design Studio

A' Design Award i Järn Winner in Interiör Category

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The Design

About Calm the World Tandklinik

För patienter är väntan i en tandklinik oftast orolig och längre än väntat. Designteamet föreslog att en lugn väntande atmosfär är nyckeln. En rymlig lobbyn med högt tak fungerade som receptionen och väntarområdet skapades sedan för patientens första intryck. De använder ett lyxhvelvstak, enkla trälister och marmorgolvet för att främja stämningen i ett gammalt skolbibliotek, där man alltid kan söka sin egen lugn. Kontoret för personal med flera användningsområden har också en lyxig utsikt över en modern ljuskrona som hänger från ljumskvalvets lobby i stadens gatubakgrund.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award i Järn

Calm the World Tandklinik är vinnare av A' Design Award i Järn, ett prestigefyllt erkännande som tilldelas bra designverk som uppfyller de professionella och industriella krav som förväntas av välgjorda skapelser. Järnvinnare visar stor skicklighet, hög specialisering, expertförståelse och skaparnas kreativa förmåga. Calm the World Tandklinik förväntas vara en högt skattad, beundrad och älskad skapelse som är praktisk och innovativ. Detta vinnande verk i A' Design Award i Järn integrerar branschens bästa praxis och har kompetenta tekniska egenskaper kopplade till kunnande och talang. Calm the World Tandklinik respekteras för sin grundlighet och är utformat för att åstadkomma förbättringar av livskvaliteten som hjälper till att göra världen till en bättre plats.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: This project was designed after finishing this client's previous dental clinic renovation in the same neighborhood. Although both properties have the same small dimensions, the space requirement was way much more in this new site. The design team was asked to put three examination rooms, one x-ray room, a dental laboratory with 2 separate in/out doors, a reception, a waiting area and restrooms within this narrow 84-square-meter area of the first floor. For the mezzanine, an operating room, a consulting room, a multi-use office, restrooms are required.
Dimensions & Packaging: This site located on the first floor, has a total area of 145 square meters including a 60-square-meter mezzanine. The dimension is 5.8 meters in width and 14.7 meters in length.
Tags: World, Dental, Clinic, DMore, Taipei
Production Technology: Formica, Steel, Glass, Wallpaper, Marble.
Design Challenge: To understand very detailed dental examination and operating procedures was critical while trying to put many functions in this small site. In addition, insisting a spacious waiting lobby had made this even more difficult. The dentists and dental equipment supplier's opinions and comments were truly helpful in the whole process.
Research: By sacrificing a big part of space to the entrance lobby, we had to avoid some doors and walls in the clinic in order to achieve more openness. A wider one turn staircase to the mezzanine leads us to the multi-use office with a luxury view of a modern chandelier hanging from our groin vault lobby in the New Taipei City street view background.
Inspiration: To many patients, seeing dentists have always been stressful. And since the waiting time is usually longer than expected, the design team proposed that a calm ambiance while waiting would be the key to the design. A spacious high ceiling lobby functioned as the reception and waiting area was then created for patient's first impression. They use a groin vault ceiling and some simple wood moldings plus the marble grids in promoting the ambiance of an old school library, where one can always seek for his own calmness.
Project Duration: The project started in February 2019 and finished in June 2019.
Operation Flow: By now, the clinic had been operating for more than 9 months. Waiting for examination has become quite relaxed and calm experiences according to the interviews with some patients. Even though people tend to receive digital information via digital devices nowadays, the old-school library can still be a reminder to one's sense of calmness.
Team Members: Designer: Matt Liao
Designer: Red Hong
Designer: Yang Chen
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Kelvin Ku
Image #2: Photographer Kelvin Ku
Image #3: Photographer Kelvin Ku
Image #4: Photographer Kelvin Ku