This dental practice is located along a semi-enclosed pedestrian street in a 70’s building complex near the European Parliament in Brussels.
The physical constraints of the existing situations are not denied; they are instead regarded as a framework within which a consistent layout, both on technical and spatial level, is developed. The position of the central concrete columns is embraced as the starting point for organising the dental cabinets and other rooms around a centralised technical core.
Containing the supporting services the wooden cube becomes the functioning heart of the practice and creates a circulation loop that assures both clarity for the patients and flexibility for the dentists.
By recessing all the interior enclosures from the façade and by hosting the more public activities along the windows, the project establishes a very open and welcoming relation with its context and ultimately contributes in activating the public space.
