Quite, comprehension and respect are the key words we had to do with when elaborating this plan, destined to an internal physician practice. The planning challenge has been that of translating these sensations into something 'material' by the means of colours, furniture and lights for, as Cesare Stevan wrote in his Social architecture , the space is a tangible product... defined by a complex of material relationships wherein the historical whole of mankind relationship defines forms, functions and meanings. The architectonic space, not as a container anymore, but a productive instrument and reflecting the disciplinary organisation and learning, leading to order and reconciliation with body (health) and nature. When planning physician practices one finds himself almost always facing these topics, but in this case, since the internist physician often must attend patients affected by neoplastic problems, it was furthermore necessary to build a comfortable and ensuring environment. The nearly 60 sm. apartment thanks to its dimensions was suitable to be a physician practice, involving few masonry works. In details it was necessary to halve the living room-entrance into two rooms, one for the reception and the secretary, the other one for the waiting hall. Partition has been created by a wall, interspersed by passages letting through light from the big window on the loggia. The wall, worked in azure stucco, contrasts with the remaining walls, clear, and the Carrara marble floor. The waiting zone is furnished with a sofa, two little armchairs, a low little table and in the corner a piece of furniture, chest of drawers kind, with a lamp. From the waiting room the access to the visiting and talking room is direct; wooden floor, pictures, clear colours and brightness concur to create a more customised and warm environment. In the brighter corner near the window it has been placed the wooden desk with a place for the computer, a bright viewer to read X-ray and bookshelves with the most important books, to be consulted. On the opposite side there's the small bed directly linked to a little re-entrant space functioning as a dressing room fitted with a hatstand and a bench , where the patient can easily prepare himself for the visit. In the surroundings of the little bed there's a piece of furniture to be used during visit. The washbasin to be used by the physician is placed in a wood panelled niche, the under washbasin space is closed by two little shutters, the adopted solution allows a comfortable and direct employ of the washbasin without getting out of the room. The enlightening of this corner is performed by two glass applique, placed in the niche. On the sides there are the two passages bringing to the dressing room and to the service zone, outlined by wooden frames. The corridor bringing to the bathroom is employed also as a space for archives with the two entries, one for the physician from the practice- room the other for the secretary from the entrance zone. An opportunity not to lose Often the greenness topic is placed marginally in planning and almost often when it is taken into account, usually only at the end of the works, in that phase concerning the finishing touch and the furniture, it is too late to carry out more substantial interventions. This case the project of the greenness has been incorporated as a complementary and an essential element to the whole architectonic plan. The apartment is in a group of three small buildings, typical of the 70s, placed freely within a space used as a garden; the entrance is through this green space and from inwards rooms overlook the garden. The terrace, having good dimensions but useless for other more linked to house living employ purposes, has been treated as a filter space between inwards and outwards, a sort of green frame to set the long perspective toward the communal garden. From inwards the result is the lightening effect of the waiting zone, a greater brightness given by the absence of curtains and softened by the presence of trees and flowers that joining the architectonic solutions concur to create an atmosphere of harmony with objects and nature. Eliana Colombo Nicoletta Pellerito Architetti operanti in Milano nei settori dell'Architettura degli Interni e dell'Architettura del Paesaggio

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