A newly constructed ultramodern building deviates from the familiar suburban box mall typology alongside the TransCanada Highway in Moncton, New Brunswick. The conventional somber medical building is reimagined into an integrative two-storey commercial office and retail experience that reveres health and wellness.
The design orients around an inner courtyard, where 11400 sq feet accommodates a pharmacy, three medical offices, a large-format lounge and café, shipping facility and a technical compounding facility. Air recovery is facilitated from the building's double-height interior garden, naturally oxygenating the space throughout and automated colour-tuning lights appease the eye through the Martimes' cold and dark winters.
The open-concept layout allows for fluid circulation between public areas that are well delineated from private consultation spaces. Visual continuity is expressed through the layering of curvilinear and rectilinear geometric forms that echo one another, extruding from the ceiling and lighting above to fixtures below. Materials fold seamlessly into one another around a biophilic-centred design to deliver a contemporary apothecary of its time.