OFFICE 183

Adjacent to the Weekend House, the clients commissioned a project to house their dental practice and also, on occasion, visiting guests. The building is a simple box that combines the two functions. On the ground floor, the radial walls of an inscribed circle define the rooms of the dental practice. A staircase in the corner, as well as the large central staircase in the garden, lead to the main double-height upper floor. The central circular space here is empty, with all the rooms, including the kitchen and bathroom, tucked around the perimeter. A mezzanine level above these side rooms is reached by a rolling library ladder. The niches between radial walls house guest bedrooms, or simply bookshelves. The building has a cross-laminated timber structure, and a facade clad entirely in aluminium perforated sheets. The openings on the facade reveal the hollow interior of the opaque cube.