Thornbury Family Dental, Melbourne Health Clinic, Victoria Architecture, Interior Development, Images
Thornbury Family Dental in Melbourne
Modern Health Clinic Interior, Australia – design by LaxStudios
13 Sep 2018
Thornbury Family Dental
Architects: LaxStudios
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Thornbury Family Dental

A critique, the project redefines the perception and experience of the conventional dental office that is born out of necessity yet habitually associated with fear, anxiety, phobia and pain.

Barrier to a dental visit has often exacerbated by the negative perception of the ‘unknown’; the obscurity and overly clinical environment that is heightened by the abrupt exposure of needles, drills and bibs. The project dared to be different, with methodology adopted from to the systematic desensitization used in dentistry; as a procedural method in reducing a patients’ anxiety through a gradual exposure of dental procedure, presented architecturally.

Small tenancy lot, the design challenges are both to be in-different yet restrained to a conventional dental office in spatial configuration, dental procedural and technical requirements.
Treating the dental treatment as a gradual exposures of activities and spaces, the dental clinic tributes to a relax and humane environment that is similar to a walk in a park.
Concepts and ideas are drawn from external references to detach the built-form from its predictability.
The curved forms th...