“The
dentist's surgery is a place nobody would never like to go; generally in this
spaces a short or long wait 
can
turn into a sensitive anxiety. Taking into account these human experiences we
have dealt with the restoration of a three room flat, placed ground floor in
a nineteenth-century anonymous house to change it into a dentist's surgery “.
That 
what the architects
Ricardo Cassina and Corrado Spinelli, who have taken care of this project in
the Meda old town centre told us. The flat at matter is nearly 90 sm., rectangle
shaped, with direct access from street; commitments' requirement was that of
having available a waiting room, two medical practices and a bathroom. The background
of the intervention has been that of the less employ of architectonic components,
by the means of which it must be have reached a good and correct functionality
between the waiting hall and the two surgeries and to create pleasant spaces
having a special interest in architectural effects, going beyond the furniture
and the decorations to be placed later. The flat has only a 
windowed
wall with plentiful height and dimensions rooms, allowing the introduction of
a sole and strong featuring factor: a “ wing wall” passing through all rooms,
lightly inclined with respect to the orthogonality of rooms and re-creating
a new spatiality. This organization element has allowed solving the enjoyableness
of rooms by setting a corridor that has become an open, lightly and organising
space. The guide idea of the strange element, the wall, sectioning and dividing,
generates a new situation and at the same time becomes the centre and the heart
of the architecture. To make feel airy and bright sensations it have been carried
out the dematerialization of the wing-hall, by the means of a geometrical working,
using openings and cuts, turning into passages and windows. Even the colour
becomes a building element: the white, selected for walls and roofs, 
clashes
against the water-green of the wing-wall standing out its pregnant and at the
same time light presence.By the successive layers of paint, it has wanted to 
give
the surface a 'dim' effect to give materials more softness. The linoleum pavement,
ivory colour, laid by rolls, extremely smooth, fits in an optimal way the hygienic
requirements the dentist's surgery asks for and it contribute to create a vital,
clear and not conventional environment. The bathroom, placed at the end of the
corridor, is shiny white ceramic tiled. The existing tiles have been kept, as
a witness of an epoch, and it has been decided that the hydraulic works required
for the new arrangement of the bath
furniture were 'on sight': so installations and channelling are external and
not built-in as usual, and they are painted according to the rules of the
European normative. As regard to the light points, designers opted for wall
lamps, both in rooms and in the corridor: appliqué of aluminium and
glass spread a dim light, giving environment more domestic 
feelings.
The furniture fit practicalness and comfort requirements, in the two surgeries
it dominates the equipped dentist's chair, placed at the centre of the rooms,
while the accessory and service furniture is placed along walls. In the waiting
hall comfortable sofas, blue cloth covered, welcome patients. The resulting
atmosphere from this intervention is featured by an utmost cleanness and hygiene,
essential requirements even regarding professional reliability so much related
to the dentist's practice.
Mensile di scienza medica e attualita`