Designing clinics presents a unique challenge that requires a careful balance between functionality and aesthetics. When designing clinics as places that offer patients well-being, we approach these spaces as venues where complete professionalism, functionality, safety, and comfort for patients and clients intersect. Therefore, our Pujo A&D team approaches the design of clinics from the perspective of the specific needs of medical professionals and the psychological aspects that positively affect the well-being of patients.
Healthcare projects are particularly defined by their functional schemes, which we create through levels of interaction and types of users. Leading the patient from the entrance to the doctor’s office, we pay special attention to designs that relax the patient, using soft tones, smooth geometry, and lighting, especially in waiting rooms. As patients move through carefully articulated hallways that radiate cleanliness and precision in geometry and functionality, they are reassured by the design that they are in safe hands.
We adapt the clinic spaces to their specific functions, where functionality tailored to the work of medical professionals takes precedence. Through our design process, we familiarise ourselves with these specifics step by step. Therefore, transformations in our design of individual clinics are adapted to the medical specialization, and technologically tailored to the spectre of examinations or interventions.
Through projects of dental clinics, gynaecological clinics, genetics clinics, and aesthetic medicine clinics, we have the opportunity to demonstrate how our design process adapts to the workflows in healthcare centres, creating impressive spaces that become part of the healthcare brand.
Futuristic Dental Clinic
In designing this dental clinic, we decided to create a sense of patient reassurance through the interior by articulating the design in a futuristic style, which is often associated with scientific and technological progress, applicable in dentistry. This way, the patient’s experience is tied to being in a space with experienced professionals, reducing stress during the wait.
In creating the waiting area, we shaped the patient space as a calming low-gravity area, with individual furniture pieces reminiscent of teeth. The fluid architecture of the reception area makes the space pleasant and soothing.
From a functional perspective, we arranged the functions in the waiting area zone through micro-environments of the reception desk, toilet, and dental radiology room, allowing patients to complete any necessary analyses in the waiting area before their examination in the dentist’s office.
Design details we used to introduce a futuristic design into the space include the use of metal and glass materials. Smooth and perforated metal surfaces on curves instead of sharp corners in the waiting room bring a shine to the space in an attractive way, similar to space-architecture. Frosted glass on the toilet doors and bulging glass above the counter, reminiscent of spaceship windows, further enhance the futuristic expression of the waiting room.
As a natural material accent that further emphasizes the futuristic expression, stone wall panels with pronounced patterns appear in the dentist’s office and laboratory areas. These panels contrast with the monochrome ambience of wall surfaces with flush doors, giving the entire space a clean geometric expression.
The dental clinic itself, defined by functionality and the ability to move around the dental chair, is organised as a room with clean geometric forms, and contrasting grey shades in earthy and smooth surfaces. As a striking accent that gives the space a humorous tone, thus paying attention to patient comfort, an imprint of a jaw appears on the walls, symbolizing the dental clinic, and serving as an attractive map of teeth anatomy, educating younger patients.
Gynecological Clinic in Earthy Tones
In designing the gynaecological clinic, we aimed to create a feminine space full of soothing details through interior solutions. We relied heavily on selecting soft furniture in light tones and using rounded walls to eliminate perpendicular angles and sharp edges when moving from room to room. Treating the waiting area as a comfortable living room, we created an ambience that is not commonly associated with a clinic, making patients feel more comfortable while waiting for their examination.
Along with soft furniture, we created a comfortable clinic ambience using light earthy tones and marble patterns on floor finishes, while ceiling spot lighting creates a porcelain-like ambience that suggests elegance. By combining diffuse lighting, natural light, and low-gravity chairs, we shaped micro-spaces that convey peace and comfort.
As an unusual detail in the interior of the clinic’s entrance zone, we introduced showcases with plants in brown glass into the reception counter and hallway wall, achieving an effect of mystery and contact with nature, turning the plant into a piece of art in a naturally shaped space.
In this project, the clinic itself is abundant with sandy tones, with soft elements that enhance comfort, such as textured draperies and curtains that allow diffuse light and maintain patient privacy. A specific functional unit for the clinic is the changing cabin, articulated with wavy wall surfaces and soft furniture.
Genetics Clinic Enriched with Golden Accents
In designing the genetics clinic, as a specific type of medical institution, we opted for a design expression that creates a harmonious ambience through layered and heterogeneous elements. As a base, we used natural tones like porcelain colour and light structured wood, but for accents, we used golden details and glass surfaces. Symbolically, golden details, as an architectural interpretation of genes, are placed in transparent glass cubes, embodying this branch of medicine through architecture.
In designing the entrance zone of this clinic, we were inspired by nature, shaping the edges of walls and work surfaces spontaneously, emphasizing their geometric irregularities to highlight the diversity of genes and their combinations from wall to wall, or symbolically – from individual to individual. By placing plants in glass showcases and shaping elements reminiscent of rough stonework, we enriched the space with natural forms, creating a comfortable and unusual waiting area.
We continued a similar treatment in the offices, dominated by gentle white tones and lighting elements in linear and spontaneous fluid forms. Custom-designed furniture is articulated in minimalist strokes, with white rectangular elements connected horizontally and vertically. We achieved contrasts in the clinics by applying different materials, with soft chairs of pronounced wool texture accompanying smooth surfaces of tables, walls, and floor coverings.
To create an expressive sculpturality of the clinic’s space, we also used glass tubes as custom-designed aesthetic details that unify functional elements of the table and lighting. This design intervention repeats the symbolic interpretation of human genetics through design, with a transparent structure where the golden element – the gene interpretation – becomes visible.
Aesthetics of the two Aesthetic Medicine Clinics
Aesthetic medicine and its benefits have become part of everyday life and lifestyle, where perfection is sought in every domain – including appearance. As a response to patients’ demand for perfection in their appearance, we answered by finding perfection in design in the two clinics’ projects, relying on simple and clean forms, and various concepts of introducing luxury and beauty symbols into the interior design.
Aesthetic Clinic in Munich
In the project of aesthetic medicine clinics, we aimed to showcase beauty through architecture. In the Munich clinic project, we chose to use gold colour, tiny spot lighting, and arches as soft, clean geometry, expressing regularity and stability. In the reception area, we used a combination of these elements, from the gold reception with spotlights and gold-framed arches to lavishing royal blue velvet furniture that emphasizes the luxury and elegance of the ambience.
In individual rooms and offices, we repeated gold and royal blue details from the entrance zone on predominantly white surfaces, introducing light into the space. Combining white colour and linear gold strokes, we aimed to create a divine ambience, creating a sense of grace in the interior. By choosing smooth and glossy surfaces in individual offices and rooms, we created relaxing environments that, in the context of achieving client well-being, bridge the gap between spa centres and doctor’s office environments.
Aesthetic Clinic in Vienna
In the design of the Phy Academy in Vienna, we aimed for elegance as the dominant impression of the space, achieved through strong contrasts and luxurious material finishes. In the entrance zone, we used light walls with elegant moulding symbolizing luxurious spaces, contrasted with black minimalist doors, while the natural pattern of regular rectangular elements of green marble contrasted with the geometric cut of the bright reception desk.
We divided the main room space into functional micro-areas for various treatments, where workstations are placed together so clients of the aesthetic centre can have treatments simultaneously. In creating a luxurious tone for this clinic, the warm colour of the flooring plays an important role, repeated in lighting elements and black accents that introduce dynamics into the room’s visual expression.
As the central clinic of the wider network, this space is also used for expert education in aesthetic medicine, for which a part of the open space is adapted for lectures. Guided by symmetry as a spatial manifestation of “beauty”, we placed two tables with green marble tops in the educational zone, emphasizing the room’s depth in the longitudinal direction.
In PUJO healthcare projects, we primarily focus on functionality and adapting design to the individual needs of each branch of medicine, while introducing a recognizable author’s stamp that contributes to the visual distinction of clinics as brands. Using geometry, materials, and colours as bearers of patient and client comfort, we design clinics as comfortable spaces that promote well-being.
