Placemaker: Brand new smile

The design concept for the KU64 dental clinic utilises a radical new morphology for a medical setting. Inspired by the landscape of sand dunes on a beach, the floor undulates, creating rises and hollows behind and within which activities and objects can be obscured.

The ceiling and floor partially reflect each other, defining protective spaces without the use of distinct enclosures. Hills and valleys are configured to enable privacy and intimacy as well as openness and vistas.

White anamorphic images, silkscreened onto the orange surfaces, can only be deciphered from distinct viewpoints, changing as you move through the clinic. Furniture and topographical volumes double as storage space, and technical equipment is seamlessly integrated into the contours of the interior.