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Marylebone Plastic Surgery Consultation Hub serves as a healing and playful community centre on Harley Street, London. The hub provides consultation space and reveal rooms for plastic surgery patients and conference facilities for surgeons to debate the future trends of beauty.
Inspired by the history of plastic surgery, the building mimics a landscape and interrogates the challenge of harmoniously merging the natural and manmade in cosmetic surgery. The vast plain site is dug out and built upon to create a raised landscape that hugs the sunken building; suggesting how architecture can be surgically constructed.
Creating a landscape that deviates in symmetry, including designing into elevations with resolving and pulling-up qualities – from the introduction of surgical cuts and volumes to testing the atmosphere generated by different materials – the design process provides a subjective commentary on, and celebration of, trying to become a better version of oneself.
The design embeds the surgical operations into subtle architectural experiences, realised by a series of assessing, cutting and implanting processes.
The axial link from the entrance to the reveal theatre explores symmetry and classical ideas of correct alignments.
A surgically altered landscape that has been pulled, pinched, stitched and sliced.
Materials are used to experiment with solidity, reflectivity and translucency.