Bronze Interior Space and Exhibition Design · 2025
Essencare Aesthetic Medical Clinic
- A' Design Award 2025 Bronze Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Awarded April 15, 2025
- CLIENT: Underroof
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 10,418
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About Essencare Aesthetic Medical Clinic
The Aesthetic Medical Clinic in Taoyuan, Taiwan, reimagines industrial heritage by drawing inspiration from historical flour factories. Its design features large columns and lush greenery, fostering harmony between humanity and nature. A central patio allows sunlight to create a vertical forest ambiance, reflecting seasonal changes. The entrance's Water Ripple Device and mechanical light tubes produce an underwater effect. This design creates an organic, migratory space where visitors can find sanctuary amidst urban memories, blending past narratives with a harmonious future.
UNDER ROOF's Essencare Aesthetic Medical Clinic engages contemporary discourse surrounding wellness architecture and the evolving typology of medical environments that prioritize psychological comfort alongside clinical functionality, situating itself within the broader movement toward patient-centered design that has gained prominence across healthcare and aesthetic medicine sectors over recent decades, the spatial composition demonstrates sophisticated command of minimalist design principles rooted in mid-century Scandinavian modernism while incorporating biophilic strategies increasingly recognized as essential to human wellbeing in built environments, the central curved seating element represents a particularly accomplished formal gesture, its sinuous profile recalling sculptural furniture innovations by designers who challenged conventional typologies by merging seating, sculpture, and spatial divider into unified objects that activate rather than merely occupy space, the execution of this element showcases technical facility in material specification and fabrication, the matte concrete-effect finish requiring careful attention to surface consistency, tonal variation, and edge resolution to achieve the organic quality evident in the final result, while the integration of cylindrical support elements in contrasting darker tones demonstrates understanding of how compositional punctuation creates visual rhythm and structural legibility, the chromatic restraint exercised throughout the environment merits particular attention, the sophisticated greige palette avoiding both the sterile coldness of pure gray clinical environments and the excessive warmth that might undermine professional credibility, instead achieving a careful equilibrium that reads as contemporary, refined, and quietly luxurious without ostentation, this color strategy extends to the strategic deployment of verdant green through living plants, their placement appearing carefully choreographed to provide biophilic connection and visual relief without overwhelming the architectural clarity, the translucent ceiling treatment represents another notable technical achievement, this element appears custom-designed to address multiple functional requirements including light diffusion, acoustic performance, and spatial definition while maintaining formal elegance through its organic curved profile that creates dialogue with the floor-level curved elements, establishing vertical formal resonance that enhances spatial coherence, the lighting strategy employed demonstrates nuanced understanding of how illumination quality affects psychological perception and physiological response in medical contexts, the soft diffused character eliminating harsh shadows and glare that might create anxiety while providing sufficient illumination for clinical assessment, the overall spatial organization suggests careful consideration of patient journey and experiential sequence, the central curved seating offering flexible informal gathering while maintaining sight lines to the reception element and creating natural circulation paths that feel intuitive rather than prescribed, the integration of architectural elements including the linear ceiling grilles and door frames in darker tones provides compositional structure and visual anchoring without competing with the softer curved vocabulary that dominates the experiential foreground, this environment invites consideration of how therapeutic spaces might balance seemingly contradictory requirements for professional credibility and personal comfort, clinical efficiency and residential intimacy, contemporary sophistication and timeless serenity, the resolution achieved suggests that such apparent contradictions dissolve when design decisions arise from genuine understanding of human psychological and physiological needs rather than stylistic convention alone, viewers might contemplate how the spatial and material choices evident here contribute to their own sense of wellbeing, whether the careful calibration of form, color, light, and living elements creates the intended atmosphere of trust, calm, and optimistic transformation that aesthetic medical environments aspire to foster.
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- Unique Properties
- To encapsulate the urban memory of Taoyuan, an industrial hub in Taiwan, this project "reimagines" the essence of industrial remnants within the space, specifically referencing a historic flour factory with large columns, reflective of the city’s past landscape. By integrating a strategic patio, sunlight floods the interior, transforming it into a vertical forest that embodies the rhythms of the seasons and the passage of time.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The long side of the site is 20.5 meters long and 7.4 meters wide, with a total area of 140 square meters.
- Tags
- Medical Beauty Clinic, Post-Human, Industrial Ruins, Coexistence with Nature, Hyper-Reality
- Production Technology
- At the entrance, a Water Ripple Device features a metallic plate that refracts light and shadow, creating an ethereal underwater ambiance. Inside, expansive "mechanical water ripple light tubes" simulate cascading waterfalls, immersing visitors in a transcendent aquatic experience.
- Design Challenge
- The primary challenge lies in crafting an organic migratory experience within a constrained space. While it is essential to "reproduce" the cylindrical form emblematic of industrial ruins, this must be achieved without overt visual prominence. Each area will present a distinct landscape, facilitating free movement and exploration, allowing individuals to discover hidden spaces that resonate with their inner moods.
- Project Duration
- The project started in July 2024 and finished in November 2024 in Taoyuan.
- Operation Flow
- This project juxtaposes two distinct forms of industrial remains. The first, the "large column," serves as a sanctuary for rest and privacy, while the second, the "small column," is enlivened by the encroachment of wild flora. This dichotomy invites a dialogue on the harmonious coexistence of humanity and nature within the narrative of the post-human era.
- Research
- In the context of the "post-human era," aesthetic medical clinics must prioritize the creation of immersive spatial experiences. This project not only preserves the memory of an industrial city but also redefines it through a new narrative, constructing a hyper-realistic environment that resonates with urban heritage.
- Inspiration
- Emerging trends in medical aesthetics have reshaped East Asia, intertwining futuristic narratives of the "post-human" with daily life. This design draws from the concept of the "post-human era," envisioning how a medical aesthetic clinic in a post-industrial city can evoke the collective memory of its surroundings, turning the clinic into a prologue for post-human exploration.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer YHLAA, NC, 2024.
Image #2: Photographer YHLAA, NC, 2024.
Image #3: Photographer YHLAA, NC, 2024.
Image #4: Photographer YHLAA, NC, 2024.
Image #5: Photographer YHLAA, NC, 2024.
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