YLAB dental clinic

YLAB Arquitectos renovated the interiors of an old dental clinic in Barcelona, giving it a luminous and dynamic character, creating a soft environment for patients.

YLAB Arquitectos created the brand image and interior design project for a dental office located in front of the modernist Sant Pau Hospital in Barcelona. The clinic occupies the first floor of two former apartments that once were connected.

The owners, two young doctor sisters, needed to remodel the father’s dark and old fashioned clinic to create a modern and functional office that would reflect their own open and dynamic character. The clinic was planned as an organic distribution with glass partitions where all the functions would be placed in a continuous space to suggest a dynamic and a spacious feel.

A soft undulating partition separates the space into two main areas: a large central area and the adjacent treatment rooms and offices. White is the main base color, applied to finishings such as the satin lacquer, the laminated panels, the continuous cement floor or even the white on white signage. The white color contrasts with the corporate dark tobacco displayed on the reception desk or the aluminum signal and the blue upholstered chairs at the waiting area.

The light colors, the use of curved shapes and the indirect lighting, which goes through all the areas, convey the sensation of calm and balance both for patients and medical staff. The central area, formed by the entrance hall with the reception desk, the waiting room and the corridors, is a widening and narrowing zigzagging space that creates the illusion of movement.

Dental clinic, Barcelona, Spain
Program: interior design and renovation
Architects: YLAB Arquitectura Barcelona, Tobias Laarmann, Yolanda Yuste López
Area: 156 sqm
Graphic design: Oi Comunicació
Completion: 2016

YLAB dental clinic

YLAB Arquitectos renovated the interiors of an old dental clinic in Barcelona, giving it a luminous and dynamic character, creating a soft environment for patients.

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