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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.

Home Spa in Bratislava, Slovakia by architekti.sk

February 5th, 2014 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: architekti.sk

Home Spa is situated in Slovakia’s capital Bratislava. The key idea of our project was to create a “relaxing & chill-out spot” with 3 parking places, situated in a hilly garden behind the client’s family historical residence.

The ‘Home Spa’ is interconnected with the neobaroque object both at garage level and a green roof situated above the garage. The concept of rotation and placement of the object to a supporting wall enabled us to create a spacious covered terrace, providing the client’s with an intimate privacy so rare to find these days in the center of Bratislava.

Evening’s garden-view filled with artificial light atmosphere., Image Courtesy © Tomáš Manina

Architects: architekti.sk
Project: Home Spa
Location: Bratislava, Slovakia
Photography: Tomáš Manina
Design Team: Matúš Polák, Martin Rezník, Silvia Kračúnová, Gabriela Rezníková-Kossuthová
Structure: Ľudovít Beťko
Internal Floor Area: 510 m2
Year: 2012

The upper terrace, with the parking, is accessible through a raw steel-made staircase on the side, settled directly in the terrain with any additional man-made adjustments. The natural rusting process delivers a unique play of colors. Original spruces were stabilized and preserved during the construction works. We also planted rhododendrons, lavenders and something to nibble (grapes, raspberries, strawberries and gooseberries) under the threes., Image Courtesy © Tomáš Manina

Large garage covered with a green roof was designed as a gallery. The first floor belongs to a relax zone – wellness with a pool, whirlpool, sauna and a tepidarium. The entire ‘Home Spa’ is visually interlinked with the garden, which flat area was made larger thanks to additional greenery while preserving all original spruces.

The overall look at the house location while maximizing use of entire estate., Image Courtesy © Tomáš Manina

The cranked wooded ceiling reflects the water surface and simultaneously hides technology above. The water’s flat-surface was designed with an overflow system covered with a wooden rim. There’s tight watercourse surrounding the pool aimed to avoid pool’s pollution. The wooden floor is designed as a marine floor., Image Courtesy © Tomáš Manina

The relaxation after swimming & sauna space to be enjoyed with a cup of tee or coffee, offering view at surrounding villas of the old town., Image Courtesy © Tomáš Manina

The interior’s airiness and spaciousness is being created by fix-frame windows with terrace exits. The interior’s furniture reflects the house’s charisma and character, where an old cozy couch found also its place. , Image Courtesy © Tomáš Manina

Build-in LED lights emphasize the wooden ceilings’ cranking at night. The jacuzzi casing smoothly merges into flower pot’s line and finishes in fitness zone’s operating upper panel. The 11-meters long pool has salty water, fitted with back flow and a massage nozzle built-in in a flower pot’s rim. , Image Courtesy © Tomáš Manina

The natural light penetrates the house through an oblong light-tunnel placed above a flower pot. A sophisticated bedding of the airflow system prevents dewing of the glass. The flowers and plants we used were specifically selected for this climate with salty waters., Image Courtesy © Tomáš Manina

Large -span garage ceiling allows free parking. , Image Courtesy © Tomáš Manina

The impression of an interlinked linear element of jacuzzi, flower-pot and and the control panel is emphasized with LED back-lights. The peripheral wall was made from large-format molds imprinted directly into concrete. , Image Courtesy © Tomáš Manina

The ceiling copies the roof’s cranking in a combination with horizontal elements, while lights and slot diffusers are integrated in the ceiling., Image Courtesy © Tomáš Manina

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: The ceiling copies the roof’s cranking in a combination with horizontal elements, while lights and slot diffusers are integrated in the ceiling., Image Courtesy © Tomáš Manina

: The impression of an interlinked linear element of jacuzzi, flower-pot and and the control panel is emphasized with LED back-lights. The peripheral wall was made from large-format molds imprinted directly into concrete. , Image Courtesy © Tomáš Manina

: Garage, together with a ramp leading to the pool, was designed as an art-gallery. The light penetrates this space from all sides through windows as well as built-in ligh-tunnels in the ceilings. , Image Courtesy © Tomáš Manina

: The house entrance is fitted with regional granite in different forms: freely lying rocks in a gabion fence, staircase blocks, freely placed rocks in the terrain or as part of the driveway. Staircase into the garden passed a planted tree and you can find a bronze fish-statue sculpted by Oto Bachorik. The sliding gate is equipped with a built-in light in its ceiling. , Image Courtesy © Tomáš Manina

: The natural light penetrates the house through an oblong light-tunnel placed above a flower pot. A sophisticated bedding of the airflow system prevents dewing of the glass. The flowers and plants we used were specifically selected for this climate with salty waters., Image Courtesy © Tomáš Manina

: Terrace on the second floor is designed for relax after massage. The handrail serves simultaneously as a light-tunnel illuminating the pool on the first floor. A part of the terrace was designed as a maintenance-free green roof., Image Courtesy © Tomáš Manina

: Build-in LED lights emphasize the wooden ceilings’ cranking at night. The jacuzzi casing smoothly merges into flower pot’s line and finishes in fitness zone’s operating upper panel. The 11-meters long pool has salty water, fitted with back flow and a massage nozzle built-in in a flower pot’s rim. , Image Courtesy © Tomáš Manina

: Blinds are controlled by an intelligent system, designed to prevent the home’s overheating during hot summer days., Image Courtesy © Tomáš Manina

: The interior’s airiness and spaciousness is being created by fix-frame windows with terrace exits. The interior’s furniture reflects the house’s charisma and character, where an old cozy couch found also its place. , Image Courtesy © Tomáš Manina

: Jacuzzi was placed in the back-side slightly above the pool, offering more intimacy and opportunities for kids to jump into the pool. Jacuzzi has an ergonomically-shaped seating and a sunbed with an integrated overflow system., Image Courtesy © Tomáš Manina

: The relaxation after swimming & sauna space to be enjoyed with a cup of tee or coffee, offering view at surrounding villas of the old town., Image Courtesy © Tomáš Manina

: The pedestrian access to the garden, accompanied by a 7-meters-tall ‘independent’ coniferous tree, leads through a staircase withing the construction opening. , Image Courtesy © Tomáš Manina

: The cranked wooded ceiling reflects the water surface and simultaneously hides technology above. The water’s flat-surface was designed with an overflow system covered with a wooden rim. There’s tight watercourse surrounding the pool aimed to avoid pool’s pollution. The wooden floor is designed as a marine floor., Image Courtesy © Tomáš Manina

: The staircase decorated with Martin Sedlák’s light art-work, serving both practical reasons as well as emergency situations., Image Courtesy © Tomáš Manina

: Light-tunnels endings selvedge the wooden terrace, naturally illuminating the underground space. The exterior’s concrete supporting wall consists of identical molds used to build the pool walls., Image Courtesy © Tomáš Manina

: Design of the steel construction enabled to anchor the entire floor in a supporting wall with an interrupted thermal bridge. There is a generously spacious and intimate living-room under the console offering shelter in any weather. There’s a garden shower for hot sunny days in the summer., Image Courtesy © Tomáš Manina

: The upper terrace, with the parking, is accessible through a raw steel-made staircase on the side, settled directly in the terrain with any additional man-made adjustments. The natural rusting process delivers a unique play of colors. Original spruces were stabilized and preserved during the construction works. We also planted rhododendrons, lavenders and something to nibble (grapes, raspberries, strawberries and gooseberries) under the threes., Image Courtesy © Tomáš Manina

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Tags: Bratislava, Slovakia

Category: Spa Centre

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