Lyca Health Medical Clinic

Canary Wharf, London, UK
2014-2015

The Lyca Health Medical Clinic is based in Canary Wharf, London`s financial center. It is located on the ground floor of one of the many generic postmodern office high-rises that have characterized the former docklands since the 1980s. The existing building shell featured an awkward overall geometry. The curvy exterior with its small-scale random kinks makes no attempt in communicating with the ultra-rational structural grid organizing much of the interior. Our design embraces this geometric conflict. While all consultation rooms align along the curvy exterior wall and receive natural light from the façade, the
diagnostic and surgical areas follow the interior gridded rational. Circulation and waiting areas occupy the remaining saw-tooth shaped anti-corridor. Together with a U-glass façade which allows daylight to filter in, the saw-tooth geometry obliterates the ubiquitous dark hallway. The wood paneling in the screening rooms, the marble of the welcome desk, and the wallpaper in other areas are all laid in a „book-match“ fashion—which creates playful abstract and symmetrical visuals reminiscent of the diagnostic imagery of the MRI and CT.