Raúl Sánchez Arquitectos has been commissioned to design the new Impress clinic in Milan, Italy's largest metropolitan area. The premises are located in a privileged south-facing location in a commercial district in the northeast of the city.

Based on the concept of a dental clinic, which is aimed at a young public, the project has a fresh design, which moves away from the chromatic and environmental clichés of a conventional dental clinic.
Raúl Sánchez Arquitectos uses a compositional element that encompasses the functional spaces while generating a characteristic identity to the project. This element is a large curve that runs along with the floor plan and frees the area in contact with the façade to function as a waiting and reception area.

With this element, the clinic is represented to the outside in a very abstract way since there are no clues about the use of the rooms, and at the same time very theatrical, with red elements on floors and ceilings.
 

Description of project by Raúl Sánchez Arquitectos

The Impress Milano clinic is located in a privileged location, on the corner, facing south, in a well proportioned space.

The Impress dental clinic concept is aimed at a young audience, which has grown with new technologies, since its offer is based on online treatments that reduce face-to-face visits. From the first moment, Impress looked for a fresh design, that represented the brand and its values, that moved away from the clichés of a dental clinic (white colors, aseptic environment).

The design takes into account the values of Impress and solves the entire program through a single gesture that organizes all the spaces: a single curve runs along the inteior accompanying the turn of the corner, encompassing all the functional spaces towards the interior, and freeing the area in contact with the facade to function as a waiting room or reception, allowing a global view of the interior from the street.

The curve itself is the abstraction of the Impress logo. In this way, the clinic is represented towards the outside in a very abstract way, since there are no clues about the use of the rooms, and at the same time very theatrical, where red color dyes floors and ceilings, and is repeated in the curtains which subtly enclose the small spaces that function as sales points, also cladded with red carpet on the walls, and with the furniture resolved with MDF boards also colored in red.

The curve is materialized in pine wood, giving, on the one hand, warmth to the whole, but also material refinement. When entering the cabinets, when crossing the line of the curve in plan, the colors shift, reds turn white and vice versa, highlighting the transition between different ambiences by means of the material code. This is specially outlined in the two dental boxes at both ends, where the wood curve is interrupted and continued by curtains, creating gathering spaces towards the street and treatment spaces towards the interior.

This representative and theatrical aspect not in vain refers to Teatro alla Scala in Milano, resolved in the same tones.

All ceiling elements are rotated 45º, again echoing the corner position; mirrors cladd doors and duplicate the spaces, again adding complexity to the interior spatial experience; the furniture is always red; the dental chairs are red and white… all the elements have been taken care of in detail to reinforce the conceptual and material coherence of the design.

The rest of the rooms, more functional, such as dressing rooms, sterilization room, staff room, are resolved in the basement.

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Project manager.- Paolo Burrattini. Local architect.- LAB 618. Engineering.- Tarquinio SRL.
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190 sqm.
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February - June 2021.
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Via Benedetto Marcello 31. Milano, Italy.
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raul sanchez architects is an architecture and design practice based in Barcelona, founded by Raúl Sánchez (Linares, 1978). He graduated from the architecture school in Granada, Spain, and starting in 2006 worked under the name of Agencia de Construcción de IDeas. Since 2005 he has resided and worked in Barcelona developing a professional activity that includes architecture, urbanism, design, and resources, ideas, and techniques management. He is currently a professor in 'Private Perimeters', a postgraduate diploma in the Elisava School, Barcelona.

The studio's awards include Premis FAD 2018 - Selected. Premis FAD 2017 - Selected. Arquia Próxima V, 1st Special Mention of the Jury. Premis Catalunya Construcció 2016 - Selected. bcnappsjam. jury's special prize. Ecobarrios competition - Honourable Mention. Europan 8 Valladolid, Spain - 1st prize.

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