Sydney Pet Dentistry

Sydney, Australia

This is a 1,000m2 two-storey specialist dentistry veterinary hospital that was converted from an office building joined to a warehouse facility.

The design consists of; public areas (reception and consultation rooms) on the ground floor, along with ancillary rooms (meeting room, offices, seminar room, utility room, etc), while the clinical areas (treatment room, dental theatre, isolation, pre-op, sterilisation room, etc.), kennels, cat pens, and staff room are located on the first floor. Vertical transportation between floors is achieved via an existing staircase and a new lift sized to accommodate a dog on a stretcher or trolley.

The focal point of the clinical area is a large treatment room, around which other clinic rooms (dental theatre, isolation, pre-op, sterilisation room, pharmacy, workstation, etc.) are distributed. The addition of glazing partitions creates the sensation of one large open space, facilitating collaboration and supervision from anywhere in the clinic area.

All clinical areas have hygienic cladding to all walls, non-slip hygienic vinyl floors with coved skirting for easy maintenance and to minimise the chance of any infection transfer.