KIPSELI ARCHITECTS DESIGN V-SHAPE GYNECOLOGICAL CLINIC IN GLYFADA, ATHENS

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Text by the architects  
 
V-Shape gynecological clinic is located on the second floor of an apartment blog in Glyfada / Attiki-Greece. The concept of the design is based on the idea of creating areas that will transfer the visitor-patient into a new spatial and temporal reality, stepping away from the conservative standards of private clinic-departments.
 
The orthonormal system is being replaced by a game of diagonal lines that is incorporated into the furniture design creating a unified composition with multiple uses, including the waiting room, reception, library etc. These diagonal lines symbolize the pubic triangle of the woman, referring to the Cycladic figures. The body’s standing position forms a V and brings up directly the conceived triangular of woman’s vagina and the idea of fertility.
 
The individual areas such as the corridor and waiting area make the spatial boundaries to disappear, as they absorb and minimize visitor’s feeling of being trapped or stressed. This is achieved through the expansion of the etched straight lines on the ceiling and the floors which are multiplied visually through reflections. All the doors embody scattered spatial elements when they are opened or closed to intensify this feeling.
 
Artificial light’s colour filtered, creating a conceived journey inside the female body where the natural light gets filtered by the human skin. The WC is designed to be round shaped, so as to exaggerate the parallelism with the female uterus. Bright led colours combined with spatial reflections and geometrical surfaces of the furniture create a futuristic sensation. As in a science fiction movie space seems to have been created at a later time. This playful theatrical aesthetic contains by choice a sense of irony upon human’s illusive beliefs on future spaces, since this clinics program revolves around the new born life.
 
 

 
Η γυναικολογική κλινική που βρίσκεται στον δεύτερο όροφο πολυκατοικίας στην Γλυφάδα συντίθεται από χώρους που στόχο έχουν να μεταφέρουν τον επισκέπτη- ασθενή σε μια νέα χωρική και χρονική πραγματικότητα, αναιρώντας τα συντηρητικά πρότυπα των ιδιωτικών ιατρείων – διαμερισμάτων.
 
Το ορθοκανονικό σύστημα καταργείται, καθώς τα έπιπλα δημιουργώντας μια ενιαία σύνθεση με πολλαπλές χρήσεις, αναπτύσσονται διαγώνια, συμβολίζοντας το ηβικό τρίγωνο της γυναίκας που διαφαίνεται στα Κυκλαδικά ειδώλια καθώς και το νοητό τριγωνικό σχήμα που προκύπτει από την περίφημη στάση του γυναικείου σώματος, κατά την γυναικολογική εξέταση.
 
Οι επιμέρους χώροι όπως ο διάδρομος και η αίθουσα αναμονής διπλασιάζονται . Οι νοητές ευθείες στην οροφή και στο δάπεδο μοιάζουν να επεκτείνονται. Οι πόρτες ενσωματώνουν διάσπαρτα αποσπάσματα χωρών κατά το άνοιγμα και το κλείσιμο τους. Μέσω της αντανάκλασης, τα όρια των χώρων χάνονται απορροφώντας την αίσθηση εγκλωβισμού από τον επισκέπτη.
 
Παράλληλα, μέσω του έγχρωμου φιλτραρίσματος του διάχυτου φωτισμού, ο χώρος σε προδιαθέτει για ένα νοητό ταξίδι στο εσωτερικό του γυναικείου σώματος, εκεί που το φως φιλτράρεται από το ανθρώπινο δέρμα.
 
Οι έντονοι χρωματισμοί του φωτός σε συνδυασμό με τις αντανακλάσεις και τις λοξές επιφάνειες των επίπλων που κυριαρχούν προσδίδουν μια “μελλοντική” αίσθηση στον χώρο. Σαν σε ταινία επιστημονικής φαντασίας, ο χώρος μοιάζει να έχει δημιουργηθεί σε μεταγενέστερο χρόνο. Με αυτόν τον λίγο παιχνιδιάρικα σκηνογραφικό τρόπο η αρχιτέκτονας προσπαθεί να τονίσει ότι ουσιαστικά η αίσθηση που έχουμε για το μέλλον δεν παύει να είναι μια ψευδαίσθηση ∙ μόνο.
 
Facts & Credits: 
Project: V Shape Clinic
Design: Kipseli Architects
Principal Architect: Kirki Mariolopoulou
Design Team: Myrto Aggelopoulou, Maria Melidi
Construction: Christos Betsis
Photographer: George Messaritakis
Location: Glyfada
Area: 150 sqm
Year: 2012 
Archisearch - V Shape Gynecological Clinic / Kipseli ArchitectsV SHAPE GYNECOLOGICAL CLINIC / KIPSELI ARCHITECTS
Archisearch - V Shape Gynecological Clinic / Kipseli ArchitectsV SHAPE GYNECOLOGICAL CLINIC / KIPSELI ARCHITECTS
Archisearch - V Shape Gynecological Clinic / Kipseli Architects / Photography by George MessaritakisV SHAPE GYNECOLOGICAL CLINIC / KIPSELI ARCHITECTS / PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE MESSARITAKIS
Archisearch - V Shape Gynecological Clinic / Kipseli Architects / Photography by George MessaritakisV SHAPE GYNECOLOGICAL CLINIC / KIPSELI ARCHITECTS / PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE MESSARITAKIS
Archisearch - V Shape Gynecological Clinic / Kipseli Architects / Photography by George MessaritakisV SHAPE GYNECOLOGICAL CLINIC / KIPSELI ARCHITECTS / PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE MESSARITAKIS
Archisearch - V Shape Gynecological Clinic / Kipseli Architects / Photography by George MessaritakisV SHAPE GYNECOLOGICAL CLINIC / KIPSELI ARCHITECTS / PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE MESSARITAKIS
Archisearch - V Shape Gynecological Clinic / Kipseli Architects / Photography by George MessaritakisV SHAPE GYNECOLOGICAL CLINIC / KIPSELI ARCHITECTS / PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE MESSARITAKIS
Archisearch - V Shape Gynecological Clinic / Kipseli Architects / Photography by George MessaritakisV SHAPE GYNECOLOGICAL CLINIC / KIPSELI ARCHITECTS / PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE MESSARITAKIS
Archisearch - V Shape Gynecological Clinic / Kipseli Architects / Photography by George MessaritakisV SHAPE GYNECOLOGICAL CLINIC / KIPSELI ARCHITECTS / PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE MESSARITAKIS
Archisearch - V Shape Gynecological Clinic / Kipseli Architects / Photography by George MessaritakisV SHAPE GYNECOLOGICAL CLINIC / KIPSELI ARCHITECTS / PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE MESSARITAKIS
Archisearch - V Shape Gynecological Clinic / Kipseli Architects / Photography by George MessaritakisV SHAPE GYNECOLOGICAL CLINIC / KIPSELI ARCHITECTS / PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE MESSARITAKIS
Archisearch - V Shape Gynecological Clinic / Kipseli Architects / Photography by George MessaritakisV SHAPE GYNECOLOGICAL CLINIC / KIPSELI ARCHITECTS / PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE MESSARITAKIS
Archisearch - V Shape Gynecological Clinic / Kipseli Architects / Photography by George MessaritakisV SHAPE GYNECOLOGICAL CLINIC / KIPSELI ARCHITECTS / PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE MESSARITAKIS
Archisearch - V Shape Gynecological Clinic / Kipseli Architects / Photography by George MessaritakisV SHAPE GYNECOLOGICAL CLINIC / KIPSELI ARCHITECTS / PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE MESSARITAKIS
Archisearch - V Shape Gynecological Clinic / Kipseli Architects / Photography by George MessaritakisV SHAPE GYNECOLOGICAL CLINIC / KIPSELI ARCHITECTS / PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE MESSARITAKIS
Archisearch - V Shape Gynecological Clinic / Kipseli Architects / Photography by George MessaritakisV SHAPE GYNECOLOGICAL CLINIC / KIPSELI ARCHITECTS / PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE MESSARITAKIS

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