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The Clever Psychology of a Health Center in Mallorca

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Imagine you have just walked through this lively and bold shot of color. How do you feel? Invigorated? Like you have just stepped forth into a whole new part of your life, where things are going to be much better? More optimistic?

This doorway is almost Art.

That sensation created is appropriate for this kind of building, because this is the exit for the Centro de Salud, a health care clinic. Hopefully you should feel better when you come out than when you went in.

Designed by MACA estudio de arquitectura, this Centro de Salud is situated in Porreres, in Spain’s brilliant sunbelt island of Mallorca.

The building is a sleepy white cube shaped building woken intermittently by shots of bold taxicab yellow. It is sited in the center of a deep lot.

Within, all is efficient and familiar.

Even the long and tiresome wait.

But the entrance and exit offer a powerful psychological boost to the health care within.

Where clients enter with their health problems – on the shaded side – is as anonymous as any other white block shaped building, but somehow more so, creating a surrealistic and faintly ominous air. Can I be cured?

On the opposite side, the exit side facing the sun; ventilation grilles minimize the blazing Mallorcan heat – to reduce the air conditioning requirements of the clinic within.

But the key feature is the exit.

As departing clients exit out into the sunshine, the sun reflecting up inside the taxicab yellow exit provides a boost of optimism.

Via Arkinetia