Designed by Matt Fajkus Architecture, Westlake Dermatology?s location in Marble Falls was a ground-up design project strengthened by a collaborative process directly with the clients and consultants. Situated along a major Texas highway to the east and overlooking gentle hills to the west, the new medical building is intentionally subtle, minimizing the visual presence of the new construction. The nuanced concrete and glass shell merges with the designed landscape architecture, enveloping the comfortable, bright, and open interior is calm and quiet as one transition from the road, through a garden zone, and into the space overlooking the Texas Hill Country.
Photography: Charles Davis Smith
Patient care and comfort was a priority that influenced the design to tend towards a feeling of security, ease, and familiarity. Upon entering or leaving the building, a physical transition and subtle mental cleanse occurs as patients, staff and physicians move through the interstitial space formed by the garden. Photography: Charles Davis Smith
Once inside, natural daylight is filtered through the perforations of a parametrically designed custom skylight of routed wood. Warm and neutral materials such as Texas walnut, polished concrete, and natural stone and ample floor to ceiling glass alleviate Westlake Dermatology?s Marble Falls location from the sterile and harsh interior environments that may be typically associated with medical offices.
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