Pediatric Clinic / Pineda Monedero

Textual content description supplied by the architects. This pediatric clinic is situated at forty sq. meters native with a courtyard on the again. For the reason that program is modest, the structure focuses on making a heat and magical area, the place kids can overlook that they’re visiting the physician.

The intention is to make use of much less intimidating language that replaces proper angles and chilly supplies with tactile, heat, and welcoming structure. A curved picket wall, between two clear white planes, generates the totally different areas.

Curved geometries and pure supplies are extra paying homage to the heat of a mom’s womb than of an aseptic area. As a consumer, the expertise additionally resembles delivery. From an intimate, enveloping area (ready room), we transfer by way of a slim slit into the sunshine. We cross a threshold (toilet and reception) and discover ourselves in an open area illuminated from above (session room). Within the center, a tree grows that may be seen from the road and as we move, it invitations us to enter to see what’s going on inside. Underneath the tree, as within the delivery, we meet the pediatrician.