In a heritage building in Melbourne, Foolscap Studio has reimagined a dermatology clinic as a high-end hospitality-inspired wellness experience.
ermatology, the medical discipline specializing in the skin, deals with both disease and cosmetics, health and beauty. Yet in terms of building typologies, a medical facility normally has a very different architectural image to, say, a day spa. At ODE Dermatology, patients can get a melanoma removed or have a non-surgical facelift (or even both). What kind of design practice is best suited to fulfil such a cross-disciplinary functional brief? One that rejects simple project categorizations would be a good start. A
