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Razzle Dazzlescape
Camarillo, CA
2018 - 2021
The pediatric dental practice as a typology imposes specific programmatic and sequential requirements based on its operational flows. The project considers this and proposes to balance the conventions of health care delivery with a fun and immersive architectural experience.
The plan organization follows the placement of a bespoke object within a nondescript shell, and the resulting spaces that define patient engagement. This central core holds all enclosed rooms for staff and caregivers, including doctors’ rooms, imaging, and administration. A generous back-of-house provides quick access between rooms and allows for a space to rest, reflect and do notetaking.
The patient areas flow around the core in a tripartite plan, based on three programmatic focal points - reception, dental exam, and treatment. With its angled positioning, patients experience the space through carefully curated moments of privacy and intimacy within the broader communal space.
Just as the plan layout orchestrates a comingling of activities, so does the overarching dazzle supergraphic – visually stitching the interstitial zones in between the programmatic elements. Dazzle, or razzle dazzle, was a unique form of camouflage for WWI ships that disrupted their outlines with a pattern of high-contrast intersecting geometric shapes – making them a difficult target with ambiguous distance, speed, and direction.
Deployed here, it strategically flattens the core and shell into an immersive spatial experience activated through movement that hopes to offer a novel outlook on the typically sterile healthcare aesthetic and engage the imagination and curiosity of its young constituents. It gradually builds up through the strategic massing expression of a lenticular surface and the curation of healthcare-grade building materials, layered with custom illustrations of local flora, that snap together to give the project a cohesive reading.
Photography by ©Fotoworks/Benny Chan
![View of aligned anamorphic supergraphic with blue lines and gray flowers in children's dental clinic in Southern California](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b63c9a_3a12dceba5eb4b9998c1180eff22233e~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_772,h_515,q_90/b63c9a_3a12dceba5eb4b9998c1180eff22233e~mv2.jpg)
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![Reception and open bays of pediatric dental practice with linear lights, blue and yellow lines, and gray sunflowers](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b63c9a_52c7e01e42634b4e80fccd0124c00eb1~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_772,h_515,q_90/b63c9a_52c7e01e42634b4e80fccd0124c00eb1~mv2.jpg)
![Child and adult at reception of pediatric dental practice with yellow area carpet, colorful poofs, gray side tables, and plywood bench](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b63c9a_a763abe0b17248deba15f67949bf2092~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_772,h_515,q_90/b63c9a_a763abe0b17248deba15f67949bf2092~mv2.jpg)
![Open exam bays with dental chairs and graphic floor and walls with blue supergraphic lines](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b63c9a_df9995cc39e04a44b4a6cf87a507a457~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_772,h_515,q_90/b63c9a_df9995cc39e04a44b4a6cf87a507a457~mv2.jpg)
![Blue waiting area with supergraphic lines and recessed lighting, colorful poufs and carpet, and plywood bench](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b63c9a_7ab00d1e2f10411b858303b780c88ac5~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_772,h_515,q_90/b63c9a_7ab00d1e2f10411b858303b780c88ac5~mv2.jpg)
![Detail of supergraphic mural with dark and light blue lines with gray nopal, cactus paddle, sunflower, bougainvillea background, and linear lights with floor graphics](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b63c9a_575b873dfef94869ab5c299bfd09a42b~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_772,h_712,q_90/b63c9a_575b873dfef94869ab5c299bfd09a42b~mv2.jpg)
![Detail of supergraphic mural with dark and light blue lines with gray nopal, cactus paddle, sunflower, bougainvillea background, and linear lights with floor graphics](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b63c9a_462dfc69f3d54afbb04360f22198b2f1~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_772,h_556,q_90/b63c9a_462dfc69f3d54afbb04360f22198b2f1~mv2.jpg)
![Detail of supergraphic mural with dark and light blue lines with gray nopal, cactus paddle, sunflower, bougainvillea background, and linear lights with floor graphics](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b63c9a_40741cc70fe7422a94adb5fc55ae1bbd~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_772,h_579,q_90/b63c9a_40741cc70fe7422a94adb5fc55ae1bbd~mv2.jpg)
![Mural on volumetric modern architecture box with yellow and blue lines, and gray background with sunflowers and bougainvillea](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b63c9a_df7d32307e9c44929edbf2acdd64aaf9~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_772,h_611,q_90/b63c9a_df7d32307e9c44929edbf2acdd64aaf9~mv2.jpg)
![Gray dental chair and light in treatment room with geometric recessed cove lighting and wall graphics with butterflies](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b63c9a_ea0dd417f8d14fa8b09a16572a379b97~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_772,h_681,q_90/b63c9a_ea0dd417f8d14fa8b09a16572a379b97~mv2.jpg)
![Waiting area at children's dental practice with orange, yellow, and red supergraphic on floral gray backround with colorful poufs and plywood bench](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b63c9a_37bc60dcff82401e8800b21b84b29f46~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_772,h_520,q_90/b63c9a_37bc60dcff82401e8800b21b84b29f46~mv2.jpg)
![Gray dental chair and light in treatment room with geometric recessed cove lighting and wall graphics with butterflies](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b63c9a_632ced77e8a643c9b377df628fc65ae2~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_772,h_515,q_90/b63c9a_632ced77e8a643c9b377df628fc65ae2~mv2.jpg)
![MNOffice design for waiting area of children's dental clinic activated by floral supergraphic in orange, yellow, and gray inspired by razzle dazzle camouflage](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b63c9a_d1d827ec1ab244dab415f2d5b02e434a~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_772,h_515,q_90/b63c9a_d1d827ec1ab244dab415f2d5b02e434a~mv2.jpg)
![Detail of supergraphic with colorful mural, graphic floor and modern linear lighting with gray background of flowers and oranges with yellow carpet](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b63c9a_77ba46220e7541f8980cf1d65f4cc3d8~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_772,h_479,q_90/b63c9a_77ba46220e7541f8980cf1d65f4cc3d8~mv2.jpg)
![MNOffice design for animation of children's dental clinic activated by supergraphic in blue and gray inspired by razzle dazzle camouflage](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b63c9a_bddbacaa80ec49039a3422f186e2a9d2~mv2.gif/v1/fill/w_692,h_372,q_90/b63c9a_bddbacaa80ec49039a3422f186e2a9d2~mv2.gif)
![MNOffice design for digital model of children's dental clinic activated by floral supergraphic in blue, orange, yellow, and gray inspired by razzle dazzle camouflage](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b63c9a_9112abf2ec4d4a6ca88e4c86e8d9883c~mv2_d_11988_7440_s_4_2.jpg/v1/fill/w_772,h_479,q_90/b63c9a_9112abf2ec4d4a6ca88e4c86e8d9883c~mv2_d_11988_7440_s_4_2.jpg)
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