A children’s diabetes clinic branded like a jungle: 3D letters and glowing CNC trees at the entrance, wooden nameplates, zebra-stripe glass film, a double-sided neon sign over the Machan space and an A-to-Z care wall.
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Most clinics look sterile. This one treats children with Type 1 diabetes, so the architect asked for an entrance and interiors that are colourful, playful and welcoming.
At the entrance, the Sweetlings name and logo are 3D acrylic letters beside CNC-cut wooden trees, lit with LEDs. Every consultation room has a wood-finish nameplate with shiny metallic acrylic letters.
Jungle wallpapers cover the walls, zebra-stripe glass film covers the partitions, colourful neon names mark the Machan and Safari spaces, and direction boards guide families around.
The favourite is the A-to-Z wall: each letter of the alphabet carries its own care message for a child managing diabetes.
The Machan sign hangs from a pergola beam on thick jute rope, so families see it coming in and going out. One side says “Machan” in LED neon: every stroke is cut from neon flex of a different colour and joined, which gives the glassy rainbow look. The other side carries the Sweetlings logo in raised acrylic and the clinic’s name in copper mirror-acrylic letters. The board is two layers with a gap between them, and a white LED strip in the gap lights the edge all round. The driver sits in the false ceiling and the cable runs down along the rope, so it is barely visible.
We had never set neon into wood before, so we made a trial piece first: a plank of real pine, its face burnt with a small hand-held flame for a charred look, with the letter outlines cut on our CNC machine and the neon pushed into the grooves. The fit was so tight that no glue was needed. Once we were happy with how it looked, we made the final sign; making, delivery and fitting took 3 to 4 days, in time for the opening. The Pharmacy sign at the clinic is made the same way. Neon signs like these are meant for indoors.
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