This piece is the first one of a new column dedicated to the planning of the physician work environment, care of architects Eliana Colombo, Nicoletta Pellerito, Lucia Porta. 
Every piece would take into examination a case and it will be developed  approaching it the same way the relationship between commitment and designer typically establishes, to analyze and solve the different issues, from space subdivision to the finishing touches employment, and it will be complete with illustrative tables.

Since the psychiatric physician receives by appointment usually he searches for his practice a flat in a concierge service building.
So the space we are going to consider for the guide-plan concerns an apartment got from a big dwelling house fragmentation in an ancient house, building typology where it is easier to find a concierge to act as filter between external and internal.
The apartment in object, nearly 50 sm. presents a classic local distribution, a great entrance, a bathroom with an ante-bathroom and two rooms and its featured by the three sides overlooks and the rich finishing touches.
The restructuring intervention has been conservative to exalt the pre-existing the Venetian dot random paving and nailed oak parquet, fish bone set with a perimetrical frame, and the harmonious design doors and windows brought to light just polishing them. 
 
 
 

dIS.1  -  STATO DI FATTO 

L'APPARTAMENTO IN ESAME DERIVA DA UN FRAZIONAMENTO DI UNA GRANDE ABITAZIONE IN UNA CASA D'EPOCA. I LOCALI CHE SARANNO DESTINATI A STUDIO MEDICO SONO:
(1) - UN INGRESSO
(2) - UN ANTIBAGNO CON BAGNO
(3) - DUE STANZE

The two rooms have been opened on each other pulling down the wooden partition and replacing it with a library so to have only a room for the talk and the examining. 
The new opening  and the wood partition building have allowed the generation of two bathrooms (one for the physician and the other for patients) more functional than the only one bathroom with the ante-bathroom of the flat first subdivision.
 

DIS 3 - PROGETTO

E' STATA REALIZZATA UNA SALA D'ATTESA CON  UN BAGNO ADIACENTE PER I CLIENTI 
( 1),(2)

 

Planning  interpretation

According to the on force norms this practice typology must be provided with a waiting room, a surgery and a bathroom.
The waiting room must be sound proof and it must be not visible from the surgery internal. The sheer surgery must be cosy, not too big, using dark colours on walls. It must be a 'good' environment, without being sumptuous, and it must not be featured by many colours. It must infuse quietness.
The classic furniture organization  provides a desk, some sitting places  and a place for relax, in the area appointed for the talk; a bed and the medical equipment in the area appointed for examination.
The only equipment near the desk is the telephone and the answering  machine which functions during talks, and on  the desk side the computer with a printer not a sight. Informatics must be present, but in an unobtrusive way.
 
 

UNO STUDIO PER LE VISITE CON UN BAGNO PRiVATO PER IL MEDICO (4), (5)
 

To arrange internal we suggest a carefully made and comfortable suite of furniture  without exceeding in personalization. 
The patient must be eased, he must feel himself as a guest in an authoritative and quite place and at the same time the physician must be put into the condition to establish a 'complicity' relationship with the patient but to control always such situation.
The professional must be a screen where patient's fantasies performance.
The environment ornamental elements must allow a talk width and must never be showed. 
For this arrangement we opted for the timeless elegance of the 'old England' fashion, mixing the formal rigour of the woodworks  and the warmth  of the  cherry essence to realize them.
The waiting room is small, for it serves to give hospitality to eventual attendants and for emergencies, it is not necessary too much sitting places and must communicate the aimed intervention.
We suggest setting a comfortable environment, simply and sober, where it can be played diffuse music or it can be employed a special apparatus to make the so-called 'white noise'. 
It is suggested to employ the green colour so to infuse relaxing sensations besides acting as a 'separation wing' toward visitors.
In the psychiatric practice the library is employed as a partition wall to create a diaphragm between the talk area and the examination one. 
It must be  not overcharged of books not to impression the patient who searches in his own physician not only intellectual understanding, but fondness too. 
That's why it must not exceed in showing books.
On the desk lightening is strong and directed, in the environment is diffused and light-points structured (upward illumination floor lamp).
Substantially there's a difference between the lightening of the writing place and that of the talking place.
The examination area is shielded but not separated from the practice. Such organization besides being very functional underlines the cultural choosing of neither prevailing the organicist attitude over the psychological one, nor vice versa .
 
 

UNO STUDIO MEDICO PER LO PSICHIATRA (3)

For, as Oliver Sacks writes in his prologue to 'An anthropologist in Mars', ... if it's true that it's possible to get horrified facing the devastation produced by mental disturbs or by growth diseases, it is true the same that sometimes it is possible to consider them as creative events, since, not withstanding the destruction of special ducts, ways of doing things, nevertheless they can force the nervous system to open new ways and find new methods, inducing it to grow in an unexpected way.'

 
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