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Rejuuv

2020

A compact Yorkville medical clinic where Reflect Architecture hides private treatment rooms behind a monolithic stone wall and a mirrored corridor.

Project size
105 m2
Building levels
1
Client
Rejuuv
Photographer
Riley Snelling
Project context
Architecture · Built · Ontario · Retail

The story

The story behind the work.

Rejuuv occupies just over 105 square metres in Toronto's Yorkville, a district known for its polished shopfronts. Reflect Architecture treated the clinic's arrival area almost as retail, using simple, bold gestures that sit comfortably in the streetscape and draw the eye of passers-by. Behind that public face, the experience shifts to something quieter and more personal.

Because the unit is compact, the practice needed a fast transition from the public lobby to the private treatment rooms. A monolithic stone wall in the arrival area does that work, concealing the access door to the spaces beyond. Step through it and a dimly lit, infinitely mirrored corridor carries each patient toward their own treatment room. Every room's door is effectively invisible, marked only by a subtle break in the linear lighting that runs overhead.

The result is a clear split between public and private. From the street Rejuuv reads as bold, bright and inviting, while the subterranean-feeling corridor keeps the clinical side calm and discreet for clients.

Completed in 2020 across a single floor.

Architecture: Reflect Architecture. Photography: Riley Snelling.

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