Projects: Guyuron Clinic

The program was a private clinic for a well-known plastic surgeon on a one-acre, triangular lot. Required were two surgeries with support areas, staff space, and separate rooms and traffic patterns for two types of patients: first time and surgery patients.

The triangular site dictated the buildings "L" shape. A playful grouping of sculptured, geometric forms with curved and angled metal surfaces, windows, and skylights invites visual interest and gives the building a distinct presence in its office building context. Areas facing the rear and side parking lots are squared-off and designed with minimal windows to ensure privacy.

Support spaces for the building's core, around which activity circulates. Clinical and waiting rooms and traffic patterns facilitate and separate surgical and first-time patient procedures. The doctor's office is distinguished as a soft, elliptical shape. Lighting in the office consists of ambient down lights, recessed fluorescent lighting, halogen ambient up-lighting, natural light from clear, insulated skylight glass, and diffused natural light from glass block. As glare-free as possible, the resulting mixture provides optimum examining conditions. Subdued lighting in the three-bed, post-operative area serves a similar function. Generous natural lighting is provided throughout the clinic spaces; an entrance at the rear ensures privacy.