Ojan Salimi
Sonrisa Gallery Clinic with an area of 125 square meters is located on the second floor of a medical complex in Chitgar district of Tehran. During the initial visits of the project, the design team faced a rectangular plan, along with fractures on the north side, with a height restriction in the interior space due to the placement of structural and mechanical devices on the ceiling. Also, the client requested that the project should not be reminiscent of conventional medical spaces and provide a different spatial experience to its users and visitors. Therefore, we decided to explore how we can achieve a new atmosphere for the project by combining the material and color palette of a space with another usage in order to transform the audience’s experience of a medical space. Therefore, our strategy was inspiring from gallery spaces and placing an abstract object at the center of the space, which we had previously experimented with in another project. By doing this), the audience’s experience was changed from the conventional medical space to the discoverable space, and this change provided a new platform for her presence in the project. The counter, in the form of a convertible object in the center of the project was transformed by crossing from the border of the reception hall to the treatment room, and converted itself into elements with the functions such as green space, book placement area, entrance door, etc. with a layered structure. In this project, the mentioned object is like creatures in nature that change their external form during hunting, mating, camouflage, etc. and return to their previous state again. In order to define the desired functions, it breaks itself and defines them in the form of active and dynamic surfaces and rests again in a corner of the space and its audience watches this moment as if the time is frozen. In the following, we tried to achieve a homogeneous structure in the space by expanding the mentioned idea, and by using the project’s layered gene in the walls, we gave identity to the fractures in the plan, improved the height experience of the audience from the space and defined our desired program. In this regard, we divided the length of the project into three sections: the reception hall, the treatment room and the VIP section, which were separated by two uncertain borders. The reception hall included a counter, living room, reception area and WC. The treatment room also included dental units, CSR room and equipment closet, which had independent access to the VIP room through a long terrace with a city view. Finally, the VIP section, which includes the VIP room, kitchen and bathroom, is separated from the reception hall through one of the surfaces by a different way. Choosing white color for multiplied surfaces and gray color for the context with red spots in the furniture, handles, faucets, etc., in addition to have visual continuity and creating legibility, are all an attempt to create a distinct atmosphere, which are also enhanced through the art panels in the space. Sonrisa Gallery Clinic strives to stand in the middle border of experience of combining a clinic and a gallery and invite the user to interact with itself by displaying an abstract artwork in the space. As if the audience placed in the middle of an installation when enters to the project that is frozen in a moment and its origin is a living creature.
Sonrisa Gallery Clinic
Asia-Oceania
Interior Architecture
Tehran, Iran
1 August 2023
OJAN Design Studio is a young studio in Tehran since 2018. Our range of activities include: Architecture, Interior Design, Product Design, Graphic Design and Corporate Identity. Ojan Salimi is the founder of OJAN Design studio, and today this organization is composed of a number of motivated and creative specialized designers who strive to use science, technology, and innovation in construction methods to make their projects a pretext for understanding new and different experiences of space or products, both for themselves and their audience. In addition to designing their projects, they study and research in the field of design process and trying to get novel solutions for their work process with experiments on siteless forms. Awards: The second place of the Memar Award in the Renovation Category, 2022 The Third place of the Memary va Sakhteman Award in the Interior Design Category, 2022 The Special Mention of the Memary va Sakhteman Award in the Renovation Category, 2022 Winner Silver Medal of 2ACAA in the Public Category of 2A Magazine, 2022 Winner Silver Medal of 2ACAA in the Interior Design Cetegory of 2A Magazine, 2021 Winner of 2ACAMA in the short animation Category of 2A Magazine, 2020 Nominated for 2ACAA in Old & New Category of 2A Magazine, 2019 Silver Medal of International Design Award, 2020 Special Mention of the jury in Masterprize Award, 2021 Silver Medal of Mizane Memari Event as valuable buildings and spaces of architecture and urban planning of contemporary Iran, 2021 Nominated for Building of the Year, Archdaily website, 2021 First place in the public Category of the Architecture and People Festival, 2022 Third place in the Interior Design Category of the Architecture and People Festival, 2022 Special Mention of the jury in the third National Festival of Architects and Employers, 2021 Special Mention of the jury in the first National Festival of Architects and Employers, 2019 Third place in the 16th Mirmiran Architecture Award, 2022 Second place in the 15th Mirmiran Architecture Award, 2021 First place in the digital design contest of Kooche Magazine, entitled Deadly Silence of the City, Battle Scene with Corona First place in the Entrance Design Competition of Hazrat Masoumeh University Finalist of the National House Award in the Fazaye-No website Eight selected works of the Young Architects Gallery of the National Festival of Architects and Employers, 2019,2020,2021 Three selected works of furniture award,2020 Selected work of the Third Dynamic Architecture Symposium, 2020 Selected work of an online and permanent exhibition of selected works by the young architect of Tehran, 2020 Selected logo design of the Cultural Center of the Faculty of Architecture, Soore University
Architecture Firm: OJAN Design Studio Lead Architects: Ojan Salimi, Ramin Rahmani Design Team: Mahsa Naghavi, Reza Esfandiari, Sanaz Bazrafshan, Ali Merati
M. H. Hamzehlouie
Image of Architect/Designer (Portrait recommended): https://2acaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Ojan-Salimi-Ramin-Rahmani.jpg
Board 1 (PDF about the panel of project’s presentation and information): https://2acaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Sheet-01.pdf
Board 2 (PDF about the panel of project’s presentation and information): https://2acaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Sheet-02.pdf
Image of project (1500px width): https://2acaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Sonrisa-Gallery-Clinic.jpg
–
Submit your review | |
2A Continental Architectural Awards
Average rating: 8 reviews
Anonymous
Oct 30, 2023
Concept and Practicality Balance: 8
Innovativeness: 8
Climate Responsiveness: 6
Anonymous
Oct 30, 2023
Climate Responsiveness: 7
Anonymous
Oct 16, 2023
Concept and Practicality Balance: 7
Innovativeness: 9
Climate Responsiveness: 6
b.lenhardt
Oct 12, 2023
Concept and Practicality Balance: 5
Innovativeness: 4
Climate Responsiveness: 2
1413794236
Oct 6, 2023
Concept and Practicality Balance: 7
Innovativeness: 8
Climate Responsiveness: 7
gisela.loehlein
Oct 6, 2023
Concept and Practicality Balance: 8
Innovativeness: 8
Climate Responsiveness: 5
innovative interior design challenge approached with a playfulness and modernistic simplistic rigor
sandra
Oct 6, 2023
b.lenhardt
Oct 6, 2023
Concept and Practicality Balance: 3
Innovativeness: 3