Iași is considered the Historical Capital of Romania because it serves as a symbol of the country’s history and is one of the centers of excellence in university education and monumental buildings. In this historical context, within an old Jewish quarter, the EAN clinic on the ground floor of a small house about 100 years old was recently renovated. The main challenges of this interior design project involved first and foremost the historic context of the building where there is limited space to intervene, and secondly the type of activity needed special attention to the regulations imposed by law for health care facilities.
The EAN clinic, in fact, is a modern maxillofacial and aesthetic dental center where the patient interacts with the architectural space, which must convey the clinic’s high professionalism, precision, and cleanliness. Lighting played a key role in this project: light fixtures act as a common element in the various rooms thanks to configurations of specially designed solutions, thanks to LIGHT-PERFORMER® software, so as to follow the morphology of each room.
The SL787+ PL suspension luminaires were chosen for the project, with bidirectional light with an opal PMMA diffuser for optimal diffusion and high light uniformity.
A peculiarity of the project concerns the clients’ desire to move away from the typical doctor-patient reception model, and at the same time integrate a series of works from the property’s personal collection into the clinic. The union of the two distinct merged needs laid the foundation for the concept: an “art gallery” dedicated to the medical act. A place where the relationship with the patient is enhanced by integrating brass niches into the setting of the space, allowing a new interaction with the clinic’s environments.
In defining the color codes of the different rooms, the shades of the works were used as guides: fuchsia is associated with the moment of operation, so it is assigned to the consultation room. For tension-laden spaces such as the waiting room, blue was used for its relaxing properties, which is also taken up in the access corridors to the treatment room where operations take place. Immaculate white is used for the sterilization and intervention room.
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