Speech Clinic

The clinic is understood as a place of learning, concentration, where the sound and image are mandatory elements. Capturing the rhythm of words, the pause between them, noise and silence, full and emptiness, is the main idea of the project. From these assumptions and the analysis of the space, a landscape ceiling that vibrates like the cadence of the rhythms of nature is drawn. This mechanism is balanced with the simplicity and strength of the whole. The filter lets the air through and sets the sound, the mass contains both. The sensations of depth, transparency, opacity and flow are given by the subtle organization of materials. The Speech Clinic is situated on the ground-floor of a residential block in the city of Lisbon. The idea of the project was based on the creation of a new image and concept for a clinic in the city. Starting from a reduced budget, the challenge consisted of the reformulation of an existing space, into a speech clinic for a young therapist.