Technical sheet
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- Gent
- Date
- 2018
- client
- professional
- Executor
- Atelier Ternier (furniture), Tondat (granito restoration), Elias (techniques), Hannes Dhondt (plaster works)
- Photos
- Leen Van Severen
- Status
- Executed
Kine In Form
Designing and organizing a compact physiotherapy practice in the basement of a mansion.
It fits in well. It fits smoothly, if you search long enough how the puzzle pieces hook together. In the basement of the mansion - before the maiden or servant 's grounds - we will get back to work. No longer fires and cooking pots, but this time cross-trainers and treatment tables. A physiotherapy practice, compactly organized as a place of strengthening and healing.
The program is arranged mainly in two large rooms, each with a door to the waiting room, which also has a toilet attached to it. A treatment room and a practice room. The basement has its own staircase, the private part of the house also has one. The original terrazzo floor is discovered when the grey tiles are removed. A century old, with some breaches; it is being restored. The historic doors are also being restored. Walls and ceilings were already lost in a previous renovation, they are being finished again, with light lines from wall to wall.
There has always been a gap between the two spaces. A door needs to be placed in the hole, but sliding doors are clumsy here and classic revolving doors are also annoyingly wide when opened. The door panels are thus broken, in two again, so they can fold on themselves and largely disappear in the thickness of the wall. The door panels are wooden frames that are held rigid by attaching matt yellow plexiglass to them. Filling becomes structure.
From the same pair of sleeves a sheet. There will also be two more shelves and a table. They consist of wooden frames as well. There are shelves in and on and actually in between. The shelves are stained yellow. At the top they have the same shadow joint detail as the door frame. A family of wooden frames. On the walls there is felt here and there. This dampens the sound and provides the room with emotional warmth. You can also pin things on it.









