Czech Genetic Bank - section collections

The interior and the entire corporate identity of the new highly specialized healthcare facility were shaped from the beginning by a team of investor - graphic designer - architect. Through mutual dialogue and collaboration, it was possible to realize an interior that is connected and communicates with the new visual style from the Dynamo design studio. The investor's initial brief envisioned a clean, pleasant, and professional healthcare facility that would positively impact both patients and the work of the doctors themselves, which became a shared theme for the architecture and graphic design of the Czech Gene Bank.

The organic form of the cell structure, which is the main motif of the visual style, is reflected in the overall spatial concept of the interior, in the furnishings, and also in the freely designed furniture of the collection room tailored to the specific space. Thus, the visual style becomes a natural part of the entire space and vice versa.

The new interior of the Czech Gene Bank is located on the ground floor of a originally administrative building in Prague Modřany. The diagnostic laboratory has already been fully equipped in the same building and serves its purpose on the upper floor of the property. The ground floor serves for direct contact with clients from providing basic information to performing the actual collections. The collections require a relatively long time, and therefore the collection rooms are designed to provide clients with privacy and appropriate comfort in the form of the option to listen to music or watch a movie, including for their possible companions.

Since this is a workplace where the quality of services, customer care, and the overall peaceful state of the client plays a very important role, clients are scheduled well in advance, and therefore there was no need to create a waiting room with a large number of seats. The need for an exceptional moment of waiting is sufficiently ensured by a few chairs in the light curved hall. Within the layout, next to a large collection room with four armchairs, there is also a small collection room with a direct connection to the nurses' room. This collection room is intended for clients requiring full privacy during the collection or the necessary active medical assistance. The privacy of clients in the large collection room is provided by custom-made, semicircular sliding screens that offer various atmospheres in the form of veneers of four types of wood with different grains. The equipment naturally includes the necessary hygienic facilities, a daily room, and a small kitchenette that also serves for preparing drinks available to the facility's clients.

In addition to the visual style and overall architectural concept, emphasis was placed on the balance of colors with predominating shades of white combined with corporate blue, balanced by warm shades of textures from various types of wood. All furniture, except for the collection armchairs, was designed in neutral white, which also supports the impression of overall cleanliness and brightness, inseparably associated with healthcare.

Czech Gene Bank s.r.o. is a healthcare facility with its own diagnostic laboratory primarily dealing with stem cells. The above-mentioned visual style has also stemmed from this - a subtle organic cell structure, serving as a complementary motif for the logo and the entire interior. The company was established in 2008 with the aim of providing comprehensive care in the procurement, processing, examination, freezing, storage, and distribution of stem cells obtained from umbilical and peripheral blood. The second area in which the CGB offers its services, which is closely related to the procurement of stem cells, is chip analysis, i.e., the use of innovative technologies to study genetic variability and cell function. These analyses represent a tool for studying DNA, RNA, and proteins, which may lead to advances in the research of various diseases, drug development, and molecular tests for clinical application. The operation of the new collection workplace was launched in the autumn of 2011.