The S Clinic by Office of Kenji Tagashira was not the easiest project in the world to construct as it’s located in the core of Osaka. As it’s facing the national road, there’s a great number of traffic existing in this area. The streets are lined with big and small stores, banks and medical facilities, and innumerable signboards are placed out miscellaneously. A disorderly row of buildings along the street is formed with them.

The clinic is one that focuses on ophthalmology and otolaryngology. The building is designed to be a clinic and also a house for the doctor and his wife which is located on the second floor

The house part can support every future change as much as possible as it’s made like a “one-room” where the kitchen space was partitioned off by furniture with the living room and the bedroom, each to south and east of the dining space with a void. The director’s room, drawing room and the second floor house part for the couples are closed from the surrounding, in consideration of the noise or the exhaust gas of the cars.

All photos by Kei Sugino