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The three stacked blocks sit at the back of a parking lot. LED lights set into the perimeter of the dental surgery uplight the smooth white facade at night. Storage areas are situated beyond the clinical space, with access either through the consultation rooms or a corridor leading off from the reception. Kunihiko Matsuba designed the Nagasawa Dental Clinic, and an accompanying home and garage for the owner, in the residential area of Hachioji, 25 miles outside the city centre. Ground floor plan – click for larger imageFirst floor plan – click for larger image Matsuba said he designed the unconventional split-level building to be the «farthest from the standard concept of two-storey buildings.»
«The buildings look like a set of building blocks piled up to the brink of collapsing,» he told Dezeen. In the clinic, a narrow white hallway with pale wooden seats and benches leads from the white reception desk to three open-plan consultation booths. Japanese architect Kunihiko Matsuba has balanced a small white house over the flat rooftops of a dental clinic and garage near Tokyo (+ slideshow). The smaller one has a window that points into the stairwell, while the larger features a window overlooking the garage roof. Two bedrooms sit on the other side of the stairwell. The garage and dental surgery are located on the ground, while the narrow one-storey house balances on the edge of the two rooftops. Emerging in the centre of the stark white space, to the right there is an open-plan living space, bathroom and separate toilet. «The surface of both inside and outside walls are illuminated by soft, linear rays of light,» said the architect.
