Golden A' Design Award Winner 2022
Scanning from left foreground moving rightward and into depth, this interior environment presents several large sculptural volumes resembling enormous smooth bowls or egg-like forms arranged across a polished floor. Beginning at the immediate left foreground, a curved wall surface rises from floor level, its color a deep warm gray like elephant hide or weathered stone, transitioning gradually upward to a lighter dove gray and finally to a cream white at the top edge where soft light emerges. This form curves gently away from the viewer, its surface smooth as polished ceramic, cool to the touch yet inviting. The floor beneath presents a darker charcoal gray with the subtle textural quality of sealed concrete, interrupted by thin luminous lines of embedded lighting that trace gentle curves, glowing with warm amber light like reflected sunset on still water. Moving rightward into the middle distance, a second ovoid volume rises, similarly graduated from darker base to lighter crown, its curved surface catching diffused illumination that creates gentle tonal gradations suggesting the soft warmth of early morning light through frosted glass. Between these forms, glimpses reveal a reception or waiting area with translucent horizontal screening elements allowing soft natural light to filter through, a small green plant providing organic contrast, and a white sculptural chair suggesting comfortable seating. Above, the ceiling flows in sweeping white curves accented by dark reveal lines, creating a canopy effect that feels protective and embracing rather than oppressive. The overall atmosphere suggests quiet warmth despite the monochromatic palette, spaciousness despite the substantial volumes, and welcoming comfort despite the futuristic aesthetic. The space feels temperature-controlled and calm, with air that seems fresh and still.
Space is created like a nest, an egg shell, or a fruit kernel; It is like stable environments that can well cover and protect, like a mother's warm womb or like a plant's pod. All of them are endowed with the intention to place life in the safe and relaxing space to receive treatment. With regard to space planning, they have, on one hand, retained the important professional movement and function of medical equipment, while also trying to challenge and obtain the very subtle commonality between rational logic and sensual imagination.