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Spread across two tight, 46-square-metre floors, the Dublin clinic houses retail, storage and waiting areas on the lower level while the first floor encapsulates three treatment rooms, a toilet, staff room and secondary waiting area. It is a very small space, so we needed to be clever when designing the layout to get the absolute maximum use from the space, explained Lafferty. Every element is jigsawed together to double up, offering both functionality and beauty.
The interior of the arch is finished with terracotta-coloured tiles
Customers enter the clinic through a street-facing, pink-hued retail store with a micro cement floor and a curved wall lined with plaster tubes. According to Kingston Lafferty Design (KLD), these were designed to resemble putty and made from multiple layers of warm-toned plaster that were built up within a custom mould.
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