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Entwurf • Design 12:43 Architekten, Stuttgart
Grundriss Erdgeschoss • Ground floor plan
Grundriss Obergeschoss • Upper floor plan
Bauherr • Client Thomas Böhringer, Tettnang
Standort • Location Graf-Eberhard-Straße 2, Tettnang
Nutzfläche • Floor space 265 m 2
Fotos • Photos Markus Guhl, Stuttgart
Mehr Infos auf Seite • More info on page 142
DENTAL PRACTICE
IN TETTNANG
Sweets of all things are the leitmotif in the corporate
design of the Tettnang dental practice Dr Herz & Böhrin-
ger. With slogans like “You are the sugar sprinkles on
my donut”, postcards invite patients to regular check-
ups. The design by 12:43 matches this, sweetening the
waiting time and the topic of oral hygiene, especially
for children, with candy colours and hiding places.
S ugar sprinkles and lemonade – fun, but harmful for the teeth, even
the little ones know that. Thomas Böhringer and Dr Katja Herz-Böh-
ringer can tell you a thing or two about being afraid of the dentist and
not of having a sweet tooth. The two dentists are convinced that most
people’s dental phobia stems from bad memories of visits to the dentist
during their childhood. Their new practice in Tettnang on Lake Con-
stance, where they treat adults and children right from the eruption of
the first milk teeth, is therefore exceptionally child-friendly indeed. The
matching spatial concept has been supplied by 12:43 Architekten from
Stuttgart, who have specialized in the design of practice interiors ever
since Steffen Bucher and Lars-Erik Prokop founded their office in 2009.
On two floors of a recently constructed new building, their team, under
the project management of Patricia Klier, organized the new practice
rooms around a central black box, which indeed holds some surprises:
besides a staircase leading up to the upper floor, it contains all wet- and
side rooms, but in addition also a hiding cave, a climbing wall and a
slide enthusiastically used by the little patients. There is even a dental-
care gum machine standing here! On the outside of this fantastic space
box, whose interior is painted in cheerful candy-striped colours, lemon-
yellow seating niches serve as open waiting areas. The reception area,
a social room and an oral-hygiene room that can be used by adults
and children alike are arranged around them. In the latter, the cheerful
colour concept with accentuated grouting and a pink washstand surely
motivates people to brush their teeth. On the upper floor there are five
treatment rooms – one of which is reserved only for children and is
consistently painted yellow. The others admit plenty of daylight into the
interior corridors with floor-to-ceiling glass doors and walls. Speaking
of light: throughout the entire practice area, an intelligent lighting con-
cept by Candela Lighting Design ensures a warm atmosphere and good
working conditions for the dentists. Orthogonally directed light lines,
which are partly integrated into the furniture construction, and circular
luminaires emphasize the clear forms of the design.
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