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Oakridge Dental Center is designed to create a unique and calming spatial experience for its patients and staff with indirect natural light and controlled views to the exterior landscape.







Designed on tight budget, the exterior material palette is restrained to highlight the relationship between the building and its surrounding landscape. Norman-sized face brick with a soft-white, mineral paint finish provides a neutral backdrop to the seasonally changing colors and textures of the site. This finish allowed for the use of an economical, transitional kiln brick that gives the building a muted presence that reads monolithically from afar while revealing the textural and tactile quality of the masonry as users approach, including at the entryway where the bricks were spun around and installed with their grooved backs facing outwards. One material, arranged to respond to a variety of situations.
Site Plan


Framing





Operatory 3
Operatory 1

















“Simple, restrained and elegant. The exteriors have a quiet simplicity, and details that you do not typically experience in a medical office.” —AIA Detroit Jury

Stainless Steel Rain Scupper


Completed photographs by Nev Muftari





Oakridge Dental Center
Rochester Hills, Michigan
3,200 SF

Client: Oakridge Dental Center



AWARDS
AIA Detroit Design Honor Award, 2020
AIA Michigan Design Honor Award, 2021
“M-Award for Excellence in Masonry Design” 
Masonry Institute of Michigan and AIA Michigan, 2020
Rethinking The Future Awards, 2022

ELSEWHERE
3D Matterport Tour / Gradient Journal

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