Felipe Assadi Arquitectos

Ayen Clinic

Ayen Clinic
© Cristobal Palma

AYEN CLINIC

Felipe Assadi + Francisca Pulido

ARCHITECTS
Felipe Assadi + Francisca Pulido

YEAR
2009

LOCATION
Talca, Chile

CATEGORY
Dental Clinic

The dental clinic Ayen is inserted into the central grid of the city of Talca, an area with an obvious state of disrepair and with a very poor quality of construction, delivering a fragmented and discontinuous environment, whose regulation was in flux at the time of the project.

Ayen Clinic
© Cristobal Palma
Ayen Clinic

Thus, like the work of dentists who "repair" the damaged parts, this project is proposed as an element that tries to repair one of these damaged situations, one of the unbuilt corners of the city center which will follow the new building guidelines devised at the time of the project.

But at the same time, following the analogy of the work of dentists, this piece will be, as a tooth, an element whose shape not only responds to the place where it is located, but also to the program it contains, so as not to pretend to be anything other than the representation of that which it contains:

Ayen Clinic
Ayen Clinic
© Unknown photographer

As the boxes do not need windows to the street, in order to maintain some privacy for patients, natural light and ventilation are at the ceiling level, thus generating an opaque and solid volume to the city.

8 separate boxes with their waiting rooms and x-ray rooms, a small laboratory and a hall, spread over two levels.

In addition to the above, and to dramatize the idea of ​​a single, monolithic piece, it is completely clad in white tile, the result of cutting a 30 x 30 cm ceramic tile, which gives a plastic and clean character the building.

Ayen Clinic
© Cristobal Palma
Ayen Clinic
© Cristobal Palma


Ayen Clinic
First Level Floor Plan
Ayen Clinic
Second Level Floor Plan


Ayen Clinic
Section B-B
Ayen Clinic
Section D-D


Ayen Clinic
East Elevation
Ayen Clinic
West Elevation
Ayen Clinic
South Elevation

Felipe Assadi Arquitectos
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