Healthcare Design - June 2015 - 10
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Edited by Anne DiNardo
"AHHH"-INSPIRING
Studio Dental Inc. is making it a lot harder for patients
to put off their biannual cleanings. Founders Dr. Sara
Creighton and CEO Lowell Caulder have created the
26-foot-long Studio Dental Mobile Unit to deliver dental
services to offices around San Francisco.
The goal is to provide a convenient experience that's
a balance of high-tech and serene office space-all
within a 230-square-foot interior. David Montalba,
founder and principal of Montalba Architects Inc., the
Los Angeles-based architecture firm tasked with creating the atypical dental environment, says the primary
challenge was to create the feeling of spaciousness
while finding room for all the necessary equipment,
including a sterilization room, waiting area, and two
operatories.
Millwork houses equipment in the workspaces and
conceals a sound system and HVAC unit, while also
wrapping around to form a patient waiting bench.
Acoustical dampening material was added to control
sound and privacy.
Simple materials, colors, and lighting elements
achieve a streamlined look, and Studio Dental's brand
identity is reinforced with touches of natural wood,
white surfaces, and a custom perforation pattern on the
unit's exterior and interior panels. "The material colors
of white, blonde wood, and black are all meant to
complement one another and enhance the volume and
perceived spatial qualities of the trailer," Montalba says.
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To inspire relaxation during cleanings and procedures, designers paid particular attention to the
ceiling. "Rather than opening the side panels to
potentially unattractive exterior environments, such as
urban parking lots, we decided to install skylights to
capture diffused natural light and house TV monitors
to help patients remain relaxed while looking up during procedures," Montalba says.
An integrated tablet in the waiting bench provides
patient forms as well as magazines, and laptops concealed in the millwork allow the dental staff to share
visual information with patients during procedures.
-Anne DiNardo
MITCH TOBIAS
Left: Studio Dental
reimagines dental service
delivery with its 26-footlong mobile unit that
travels to offices around
San Francisco. Above:
Translucent sculpted
skylights and 11-foot
ceilings above the patient
chairs are used to add to
the sense of spaciousness
within the unit. Below:
Each operatory measures
roughly 8 by 4 feet
and uses a centralized
millwork panel to visually
separate patients from
one another. Sheer
curtains can be used to
further enclose these
spaces during treatment.
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