{"id":194428,"date":"2022-03-17T10:49:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T14:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/?post_type=id_project&p=194428"},"modified":"2022-11-14T12:36:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T17:36:32","slug":"vitale-design-directors-envision-a-playful-dental-clinic-in-castellon-de-la-plana-spain","status":"publish","type":"id_project","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/projects\/vitale-design-directors-envision-a-playful-dental-clinic-in-castellon-de-la-plana-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitale Design Directors Envision a Playful Dental Clinic in Castell\u00f3n de la Plana, Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Interlocking plywood pieces form a custom arch in reception, part of the project\u2019s learning-based theme (child-centered reading materials are stored beneath the \u00bfSab\u00edas que\u2026? mural, which translates to Did you know?).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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March 17, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n

Words: <\/span>Georgina McWhirter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography: <\/span>Santiago Mart\u00edn and Sievers&Carregu\u00ed<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Vitale Design Directors Envision a Playful Dental Clinic in Castell\u00f3n de la Plana, Spain<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s nothing fun about cavities, especially for kids. Keeping that in mind, design directors Luc\u00eda Chover, Carlos Folch, and Santiago Mart\u00edn\u2014who founded Vitale in eastern Spain\u2019s Castell\u00f3n de la Plana in 2006 after meeting at its Universitat Jaume I\u2014envisioned a playful clinic that would actively destress anxious children and parents for Isabel Cadroy, Dentista Infantil, a local pediatric dental office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cheery neo-Memphis colors, simple geometries, and a dash of biophilia suffuse the two-level, 3,760-square-foot space. It\u2019s a stark contrast to Dr. Cadroy\u2019s previous office, which had \u201cno person\u00adality and was on an awkward mezzanine level,\u201d Chover explains. To inject creativity into the new city center location, the Vitale team employed wood and tile to draw on tropes of learning, since teaching children about oral health is the fundamental principle of Dr. Cadroy\u2019s work. At the entry, a plywood arch slots together like a construction game. Farther in, doors and paneling are routed with a puzzle design. Walls, columns, and restrooms clad in uniform white square tiles take inspiration from the gridded notebooks children use to learn to write. Birch-plywood chandeliers incorporating minimalist shapes nod to mobiles over a crib yet don\u2019t descend into infantilism. \u201cWe focused on the sensations of comfort, warmth, familiarity, and well-being,\u201d Folch notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout, rounded shapes and indirect lighting soothe. Additional fear-reducing measures include the waiting area\u2019s capsule-shape seating nooks, which cocoon and foster a sense of protection. In the main corridor, a series of pitched roof structures provide a homey feeling. One serves as a transition between the waiting area, restrooms, and radiology and post-treatment rooms. Beyond, the second roof structure, or \u201ctunnel,\u201d as Mart\u00edn refers to it, funnels little patients to the pair of skylit treatment rooms, which both look out to a mood-boosting vertical garden. In fact, green is one of the three main colors in the project\u2019s palette. Pantone 7723 C, a calming fern, Pantone 1635 EC, a warm terra-cotta, and Pantone 121 C, an optimistic yellow, appear in everything\u2014from the tile grout, vinyl flooring, and logo typography to the waiting-area and treatment-room seating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vinyl with a subtle terrazzo-style fleck wraps the walls and floor in the corridor leading from reception to treatment rooms at Isabel Cadroy, Dentista Infantil, a pediatric dental practice. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Built-in seating plus a Mosaico bench by Yonoh furnish reception. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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A custom birch-plywood chandelier inspired by mobiles hangs above the stairway leading from the patient-care areas to the basement for staff use.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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In a restroom, the porcelain tile\u2019s grout is matched to Pantone 1635 EC, one of three colors selected for the clinic\u2019s branding.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Patient chairs continue the palette in the treatment rooms, which overlook an artificial vertical garden set below a skylight. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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EstudiHac\u2019s Magnum chair provides supplemental seating throughout, including in the post-treatment area. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Interlocking plywood pieces form a custom arch in reception, part of the project\u2019s learning-based theme (child-centered reading materials are stored beneath the \u00bfSab\u00edas que\u2026? mural, which translates to Did you know?).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
product sources<\/h6><\/div>\n\n\n\n
FROM FRONT<\/h6><\/div>\n\n\n\n
sancal<\/span><\/a>: seating (reception, treatment room, post-treatment)<\/span><\/section>\n\n\n\n
scarabeo ceramiche<\/span><\/a>: sink (restroom)<\/span><\/section>\n\n\n\n
Roca<\/span><\/a>: sink fittings<\/span><\/section>\n\n\n\n
ineslam<\/span><\/a>: sconces<\/span><\/section>\n\n\n\n
THROUGHOUT<\/h6><\/div>\n\n\n\n
natucer<\/span><\/a>: tile<\/span><\/section>\n\n\n\n
Tarkett<\/span><\/a>: flooring<\/span><\/section>\n\n\n\n
font arquitectura<\/span><\/a>: architect of record<\/span><\/section>\n\n\n\n
madentia<\/span><\/a>: woodwork<\/span><\/section>\n\n\n\n
at4 grupo<\/span><\/a>: general contractor<\/span><\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n