Domae Dental Home Clinic

Holistic medical care refers to comprehensive prevention, diagnosis, and treatment that is suited to each patient, taking into consideration not only specific affected parts or symptoms but also a wide range of factors including the patient's psychological and social aspects. It is the philosophy of Mr. and Mrs. Domae, who commissioned Schemata Architects to design their residence and dental clinic. As designers looked at the philosophy and the life of the couple and their three children, they envisioned that the philosophy would extend beyond the clinic to the home and the community. Coincidentally, the nursery school and elementary school where the children attend are diagonally across from the site, closely interconnecting home, workplace, and school. Inspired by this setting, designers imagined a scene in which the children returning from school would go straight to the waiting area of the clinic without putting away their school bags and read comic books, while ladies from the neighborhood waiting for the treatment would kindly watch over them. This is a grand project involving a mix of public and private activities, extending from the clinic to the residence, to the nursery school and elementary school, and to the surrounding community. The building has been completed, but the real work of the project is yet to begin. Schemata Architects look forward to seeing how the dental clinic will blend in with the community.

「整體醫療照護」是指全面性的預防、診斷和治療，適合每位病患，不僅考慮受影響的特定部位或症狀，還包括病患的心理和社會層面等多種因素。堂前先生和夫人以這樣的理念，委託Schemata Architects為他們設計住所和牙科診所。看著這對夫婦和他們的三個孩子的生活哲學時，首先，建築師思考如何打破對於傳統診所的框架，將業主的理念延伸擴展到家庭和社區。巧合的是，孩子們就讀的幼稚園和小學就位在這個基地的斜對角，緊密地連接了家庭、工作場所和學校。受到這樣的環境啟發，建築團隊想像一個場景：孩子們從學校回來後，會直接到診所的候診區，不放下他們的書包，而是拿起漫畫書看，這時社區裡等待治療的女士們會溫暖地照顧著他們。這是一個涉及公共和私人活動多種組合的大型專案，從診所延伸到住宅、幼稚園和小學，以及周圍的社區。此建築已經完成，但這個專案的實際計劃尚未開始，Schemata Architects表示相當期待看到牙科診所如何與社區融合。

The building was designed as a one-story structure to connect people horizontally as much as possible. While the couple hopes to eventually expand the clinic to accommodate ten dental chairs in the future, the floor area of the building will inevitably become large since it includes a residence as well as the clinic, and needs a large roof to cover it. Such a large roof would stand out in the neighborhood without harmonizing with the neighboring houses, and would not fit the philosophy of holistic treatment that the clinic aims for. Therefore, designers decided to divide the building into smaller sections as much as possible, and connect them using roofing and exterior wall materials similar to those of the neighboring houses. The roof slope still made some parts of the ceiling as high as a two-story space and built floors in some places to create storage on the second floor. As a result, the building gained an appearance as if neighboring houses have been stacked on top to create an extension. They initially aimed for a large clinic with ten dental chairs in the future, but due to budget constraints, it was decided that an additional space would be built to accommodate five dental chairs. With this in mind, the design was conceived so that the future addition would be a natural part of the composition.

這座建築結構規劃一層樓高，以促進人們之間的交流和互動，使得他們更容易接觸到彼此。這對夫婦希望診所擴建後能夠在未來容納十張牙科治療椅，但對於包括住宅和診所的建築物來說，不可避免的，其樓層面積會變得非常大，且需要一個大屋頂來覆蓋它。這樣一個大屋頂會在鄰里中顯得很突兀，而且無法與周圍的房屋和諧融合，也不符合堂前夫婦所追求「整體治療照護」的理念，於是決定盡可能地將建築物分成較小的部分，並使用與鄰近房屋相似的屋頂和外牆材料來連接它們。屋頂的坡度使某些部分的天花板高達兩層樓高，並在二樓的部分空間規劃了儲物空間，因此，建築物形成了另一種外觀，就好像鄰居的房子被擴建堆疊起來。最初的目標是建造一個未來能容下十個牙科治療椅的大型診所，由於預算限制，這個設計目標無法實現，所以決定增建一個附加的空間，以容納五張牙科治療椅，考量到這點，在設計之初便將未來擴建的部分納入考慮，使得擴建部分與原有建築物完美融合，看起來更自然。

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