DESIGN NAME: Wellness and DaySPA
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Corporate interior branding
INSPIRATION: Earth and Metal. The reception and waiting area, draws inspiration from earth and extraction of minerals and semi-precious stones.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The design solution refers to a Dayspa facility that offers spiritual and physical stimuli to assist the customer in escaping the daily hectic and stressful routine of urban life. It combines traditional practice with high technology, and has invested in a design that communicates this identity to environmental branding.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: The parametric layering of ceiling and walls is acting like a contemporary metaphor of a natural cave, allowing natural daylight to flood the office and accounting areas behind them. The two reception modules are gilded in copper resembling two faceted semiprecious stones. The design approach is a metaphor of inner beauty that every person holds, like a stone that needs some refinement before its transformation to invaluable gem. Corridors and traffic zones have been designed as ring roads around geometric volumes that offer customized treatment and therapy plans. These traffic zones offer the aesthetic environment of a gallery, exhibiting etchings and paintings by contemporary artists and engravers.
Linear Led Lighting indicates movement, while round recessed ceiling fixtures indicate pausing in front of private treatments. These ceiling fixtures were custom manufactured and gilded with gold and copper to give the feeling of jewelry.
Dots and lines a coded corporate identity about valuable dynamism.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: Assigned August 2013-Delivered December 2013.
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Architecture, Building and Structure Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: Designed with Nurss CadSoftware and manufactured with CAD/CAM technology.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: The overall project occupies an total of 750sqmeters.
TAGS: Interior architecture, environmental branding, metaphor, parametric design.
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: REsearch was conducted to assess the feasibility of the suggested design, the parametric design and the most viable CAD/CAM manufacturing technology.
CHALLENGE: The challenging part was to incorporate parametric design to the needs and allocated budget of a commercial project. Time, space and state regulations regarding height and materials had to be overcome and adjusted to the design deliverables.
ADDED DATE: 2014-02-26 06:06:42
TEAM MEMBERS (5) : Helen Brasinika, Principal Architect & Project Manager, Anastasias Rokkou, Design Technologist & Cad Designer, Panagiota Brasinika, Design Assistant, Mike Chatseras, Architect Supervisor and Stefanos Panagoulias, Electric/Mechanical study and construction
IMAGE CREDITS: GeorgeFakaros
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