GetaCure – Clinic & Patholab

The brief

GetaCure needed one premises to hold two different operations: doctors consulting patients, and a pathology lab collecting and processing samples. The brief asked for smooth operations and, explicitly, for an atmosphere that reduces rather than adds to the stress patients bring with them.

The constraint

Healthcare interiors are governed by flow before they are governed by taste. A patient arriving for a consultation and a patient arriving for a blood test want different journeys through the same front door, and neither should have to walk through the other's. Samples have their own route, which should not cross either.

The finishes carry a second, competing requirement: everything must be cleanable and durable under daily disinfection, while not producing the hard, bright, echoing room that makes people more anxious than they already were.

What we did

We zoned the plan around three separate journeys — consultation, collection and staff/sample movement — and placed reception where it can see all three without any of them passing through the others. Waiting was given enough seating depth that people are not queuing in a corridor, which is where most small clinics lose their calm.

The material palette stays soft: warm tones and warm-temperature lighting instead of the cold white that reads as institutional, on surfaces chosen to survive repeated cleaning. Acoustic softness was treated as a clinical requirement, not a luxury — consultation rooms need privacy, and waiting areas need to not amplify.

The result

A clinic that runs smoothly at its busiest hour and still feels unhurried, with zoning that keeps patients, staff and samples on separate paths.