Pedra Silva Arquitectos

Dental Clinic In Lisbon

Dental Clinic In Lisbon
© João Morgado

DENTAL CLINIC IN LISBON

Pedra Silva Arquitectos

PHOTOGRAPHS
João Morgado

AREA
149.0 m²

YEAR
2011

LOCATION
Lisbon, Portugal

CATEGORY
Dental Clinic

Text description provided by architect.

Why do healthcare spaces have to be cold spaces? This has been the underlying question since the beginning of our proposal.

Dental Clinic In Lisbon
© João Morgado
Dental Clinic In Lisbon
© João Morgado

In fact there are several activities that go on in a clinical space, some regarding actual medical treatments and others related with social and reception areas.

Although one might consider the treatment areas to be central in a dental clinic, this project aims to reinforce the social and.

Dental Clinic In Lisbon
© João Morgado
Dental Clinic In Lisbon
© João Morgado

Humane side of healthcare facilities, By proposing two distinct and opposite environments: the clinic space and the social space.

The first is a rigorous, hygienic and professional space, mainly in white materials, that aspires to provide confidence and serenity to the patient.

The second is a space for meeting, relaxing and comfort, a way to distance the patient from the clinical mindset.

Dental Clinic In Lisbon
© João Morgado
Dental Clinic In Lisbon
© João Morgado
Dental Clinic In Lisbon
© João Morgado

The premise of spatial and functional duality was obtained through the introduction of a curved organic volume that runs through the entire space, and closes a new interior space.

This allows for a full/empty, dark/light and frmness/relax interpretaion.

Dental Clinic In Lisbon
© João Morgado
Dental Clinic In Lisbon
© João Morgado

The void space around the internal volume functions as reception area and waiting room. 

The organic volume houses all the medical facilities.

To reinforce the duality between the two spaces, the outside of the organic volume is clad with mirrored mosaics,

Dental Clinic In Lisbon
© João Morgado
Dental Clinic In Lisbon
© João Morgado

That generate a multitude of light reflections framed by a dark background, that results in a unexpected and sophisticated environment.

The inside clinical area takes the outside volume’s organic nature and forms all the necessary facilities around a simple central distribution corridor.

Dental Clinic In Lisbon
© João Morgado
Dental Clinic In Lisbon
© João Morgado

As a way to enlarge the interior space perception, most of the partitions were built in transparent glass.

This reinforces the project’s inside/outside motto. Publication material via v2com

Dental Clinic In Lisbon
© João Morgado


Dental Clinic In Lisbon
© João Morgado
Dental Clinic In Lisbon
© João Morgado
Dental Clinic In Lisbon
© João Morgado
Dental Clinic In Lisbon
© João Morgado
Dental Clinic In Lisbon
© João Morgado
Dental Clinic In Lisbon
© João Morgado
Dental Clinic In Lisbon
© João Morgado
Dental Clinic In Lisbon
© João Morgado


Dental Clinic In Lisbon

Pedra Silva Arquitectos
T +351 217 156210 M +351 916 892144
Pedra Silva Arquitectos
Tv. Corpo Santo 10 1dto, 1200-131 Lisboa, Portugal