SDC — Smile Dental Center

The brief was a dental centre that also works as a spa, and the answer was to stop treating those as two programmes. Vertical ripples run across the plaster in every room, catching the grazing light so a flat wall gains a texture you want to touch. The reception is a single sculpted block of stone under a wave of timber, with the mark in gold inside a backlit arch.

From there the plan reads as hospitality rather than healthcare. Arched niches hold towels and product. A line of script runs along a wall — a smile is a curved line that straightens everything. The treatment rooms keep the equipment, but it is never the first thing you see: what you see is the arch, the warm cove light and the stone.