Awakening 牙科诊所 by Lieh-Wei Liu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 室内空间与展览设计 Competition Category.

铜室内· 2023

Awakening 牙科诊所

by Lieh-Wei Liu

Client: Chang Gu Interior Design Center

A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 室内 Category

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The Design

About Awakening 牙科诊所

「觉醒」是一间位于台湾桃园市中坜区的牙科诊所。室内空间涵盖三个楼层，包含接待区、休息与咨询区、诊疗室、消毒室及办公区域。金属、石材、木材与大量室内植栽构成主要材质。宽幅的大理石面与粗犷的岩石表面同温润木质形成对比，令人联想起地球早期植物生命的缓慢生长。患者与医护人员的动线相互分离，以保护隐私并降低交叉感染风险。此设计以静谧的自然环境取代了冰冷惨白的医疗空间。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铜奖

Awakening 牙科诊所是 A' Design Award 铜奖得主，这是授予以创造力、独创性和敏锐见长的杰出设计的极具声望的认可。铜奖得主是技艺娴熟、创意惊人的作品，印证了其设计师丰富的经验、想象力与机智。预计Awakening 牙科诊所将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的物品，兼具显著的专业性与创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铜奖的设计融入艺术、科学、设计和技术领域的最佳实践，并因注重细节而出类拔萃。Awakening 牙科诊所出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Metal, stone, wood and a large number of indoor plants are used as the basic materials of landscaping to shape. The large-section marble and irregular rough rock surface are the main focus of the space of the whole area to symbolize that the Creator has exerted the magnificent power to create space since ancient times. The use of a large number of green plants and hard mottled boulders. The base of the warm and gentle texture of wood is a metaphor for the progress of time and the circle of life.
Dimensions & Packaging: The first floor has a total construction area of 300 square meters. Has areas for guest reception, restreading room, consulting room, gaming room and Dental space. Second floor has a total construction area of 200 square meters. Has areas for guest reception, rest,consulting room, Dental space sterization room and operation room. Third floor has a total construction area of 200 square meters. Has areas for guest reception, rest,consulting room, photo Room, Dental space and office Area.
Tags: Dental Clinic, Dentisit, Courtyard, Fungus, Algae, Ferns
Production Technology: Medicine is a part of humanity. The design of a medical space should avoid the old framework and be transformed from a cold white space into one with splendid colors, from an emphasis on practical functions to a diverse cultural space, moving from a field where people can only feel sickness and pain to a positive and optimistic environment. Such a re-envisioning takes imagination and enthusiasm, but also the ability to integrate all the advanced equipment rationally and professionally.
Design Challenge: Currently, the pandemic is a global issue and infection control has become a primary design point for medical spaces. We incorporated the patients consultation flow and the medical personnels work flow into the early stage of the design. We selected the antibacterial strength of various materials to prevent the cross infection of viruses, studied equipment disinfection and the transportation path of infected waste and strictly separated the access space to comply with infection control regulations.
Research: This project attempts to use the space to express a flexible appeal. As if writing the softest haiku despite strong rational repression, it neither adheres to the formal aesthetics of architecture nor overly relies on decorative techniques. The project uses spatial vocabulary to encourage the owner accept the theme and metaphors like those in stories, thus paving a way for a future full of possibilities for medical spaces and creating a medical experience completely unlike those of the past.
Inspiration: 3.4 billion years ago. This first green plant to appear on earth fell into the methane-full ocean and kept reproducing. The atmosphere slowly formed on the ground. Over the next billions of years, fungus, algae, ferns, Lycopodiopsida and Equisetum bogotense. The plants that reproduced through spores were as tall as modern trees. Soon, forests of seed plants occupied and dominated the entire earth, providing the necessary growing conditions and protection for the planet. All from that first Cyanobacteria.
Project Duration: Design: 2017.10 Construction: 2017.11-2018.10 in Zhongli District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
Operation Flow: The clinic design must respect the patients medical care procedures and the medical personnels work flow. Regarding patients medical treatment, any overlapping flow with others has to be minimized to respect privacy and reduce cross infection. From entering the clinic to check in, waiting, consultation, seeing a doctor, relief after treatment and medical personnels advice to leaving the clinic, patients will complete all steps of the medical procedure in the most comfortable, independent, and relaxed state.
Team Members: Design Director:LIU LIEH-WEI
Designer: LIN YI-CHIA
Designer: LIOU YEU-YANN
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Liang Yen Hsiung, Rhythm, 2018. Image #2: Photographer Liang Yen Hsiung, Life, 2018.
Image #3: Photographer Liang Yen Hsiung, Silence, 2018. Image #4: Photographer Liang Yen Hsiung, Healing, 2018. Image #5: Photographer Liang Yen Hsiung, TGrowth, 2018.