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Health therapy centre

Location
Wan Chai, Hong Kong
Type
Health therapy centre, non-profit
Year
2025
Commission
Pro bono
Role
Sole designer - concept and spatial layout
Visualisation of the centre's gathering space with a sofa, low tables, framed pictures and a bookshelf divider
Fig. 01 - The gathering space, visualisation

The brief

A hydrogen therapy centre for a non-profit, with a very tight budget for both the renovation and the running costs.

The obvious answer was to fit out the whole office floor. Instead, we asked how much space the centre actually needed day to day, and what it could afford to run. Two new walls bring the footprint down to that, and the existing office walls were reused rather than removed.

Details you didn't ask for

  1. Axonometric of the unit with arrows marking a door for access and the route to the pantry through the new wall
    Fig. 02 - Door for access and the route to the pantry
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    A doorway instead of a wall

    The building owner needed direct access from the lift lobby to the unused part of the floor, which would have cut the centre off from the pantry. An opening left in the new wall, closed with a curtain, kept the pantry in use while the owner kept their route through.

  2. Axonometric zoning diagram: private staff rooms shaded red, public visitor rooms shaded purple, with arrows showing routes
    Fig. 03 - Private (staff) and public (visitors) zones
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    Existing walls, new uses

    The old office walls were kept and turned into treatment rooms, an office and storage, so the budget went on the centre rather than on demolition. A bookshelf divides the public visitor areas from the private staff areas.

  3. Axonometric comparing the original unit with the smaller area the centre now uses, outlined in red
    Fig. 04 - Original unit and the area now used
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    Only the floor area the centre can run

    Renovating and running the whole floor was beyond the budget. After talking it through with the client and the building owner, two new walls divide the floor, leaving a multi-purpose space large enough for the centre's use.

Drawings

Axonometric of the layout with a numbered key: lift lobby, entry, gathering space, meditation space, treatment rooms, office, storage, pantry and unused area
Fig. 05 - Spatial arrangement: 00 lift lobby, 01 entry, 02 gathering space, 03 meditation space, 04 treatment room, 05 office, 06 storage, 07 pantry, 08 unused area
The empty office floor before the works, with bare concrete patches and exposed ceiling
Fig. 06 - The floor as found

Specification

  1. 01New wallsTwo new walls dividing the floor, with a curtained opening to the pantry
  2. 02Existing wallsOffice partitions kept and reused as treatment rooms, office and storage
  3. 03DividerBookshelf between the public and private areas