In the traditional Madrid neighbourhood of Ciudad Lineal, the studio JJ+ faces the challenge of creating an image for a dental clinic, based on Josef Albers' painting "A Bright Day", through a proposal that contrasts with the surrounding architecture.

In order to highlight the interior activity of the premises and the differences with what already exists, the proposal builds an interior façade that is radically different from its exterior frame, allowing a controlled appreciation of how the new skin is inhabited and inviting passers-by to enter.

The intervention by JJ+ for the dental clinic is based on the modulation of a skin that connects its interior with the street by alternating between opaque, translucent and transparent pieces, based on the degree of privacy of each room.

The project creates a game of colours and materials that, as in the case of steel and its reflections, allow the introduction of exterior vegetation into the premises and reflect sunlight into the new street and mark the differentiation between spaces alternating according to their use and influx.

Dental clinic by JJ+. Photograph by Amores Pictures.

Project description by JJ+

An interior street is our proposal for the first Kenna dental clinic in Madrid.

Faced with the challenge of creating the image for a dental clinic, our proposal proposes an interior façade that contrasts with the traditional Madrid neighborhood of Ciudad Lineal.

Just like Josef Albers in his painting “A bright day,” the proposal builds an interior façade that is radically different from the exterior frame, allowing us to appreciate in a controlled manner how this new skin is inhabited inside. In order to highlight this difference, stainless steel is chosen for its materialization.

Dental clinic by JJ+. Photograph by Amores Pictures
Dental clinic by JJ+. Photograph by Amores Pictures.

This façade generates a new circulation in the premises, a new inside-outside, a new street. This circulation allows us to appreciate the operation of the clinic from the outside and invites the passerby to enter. The reflections of the stainless steel allow the exterior vegetation to be brought inside the premises and reflect sunlight into the new street.

Within the modulation of this skin, we project opaque, translucent and transparent pieces according to the degree of privacy of each room. The privacy of each clinical room determines the permeability of the new skin. In this way, a transparent glass panel marks the entrance to the waiting room or a wooden door provides access to the offices.

At the end of the inner street, around a small waiting area, a coloured marker marks the access to the X-ray room and the toilet. Next to this, a door provides access to the private staff area.

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Luis Gil Mucientes.

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2023-2024.

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Madrid, Spain.

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Jotajotamás is an architecture and design studio based in Madrid, directed by architects Javier Onrubia and Jorge Gabaldón.

After passing through several national and international architecture studios, JJ+ was created as a project that focuses on the exploration and development of unique architectural projects.

His work is nourished by creative processes and mediation with third parties, from a critical vision of the ways of living and spatial relationships in architecture.
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Published on: October 26, 2024
Cite: "Opening up to change. Dental clinic by JJ+" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/opening-change-dental-clinic-jj> ISSN 1139-6415
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