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Enota's Termalija Family Wellness Swimming Pools presents a breathtaking interior architectural composition where the eye is immediately commanded by an extraordinary faceted timber ceiling structure…

Termalija Family Wellness Swimming Pools by Enota is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Golden A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Competition Category.


GoldArchitecture· 2020

Termalija Family Wellness Swimming Pools

by Enota

Client: Terme Olimia

Golden A' Design Award Winner in Architecture Category

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The Design

About Termalija Family Wellness Swimming Pools

Termalija Family Wellness is the latest in the series of projects which Enota has built at Terme Olimia in the last fifteen years and concludes the complete transformation of the spa complex. Viewed from a distance, the shape, color and scale of new clustered structure of tetrahedral volumes is a continuation of the cluster of the surrounding rural buildings, visually extending into the heart of the complex. The new roof acts as a big summer shade and doesn't usurp any of the precious exterior space.

The Recognition

About the Golden A' Design Award

Termalija Family Wellness Swimming Pools is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Termalija Family Wellness Swimming Pools is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Termalija Family Wellness Swimming Pools creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.

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Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
The seemingly complex geometry gives the new roof static strength, allowing the entire pool space to be covered virtually without supports. In this way, the new roof floats above the pool platform, which is designed as an exterior space. Numerous skylights in the roof, together with the ability to fully open all the facade glass surfaces, enable the guests to seamlessly pass through the interior of the building. Despite its size and the space it occupies, the new roof simply acts as a big summertime sunshade and does not usurp any of the precious exterior space.
Dimensions & Packaging
Size: 8.780 m2
Site: 10.200 m2
Footprint: 3.930 m2
Tags
Wellness, swimming pools, family spa, wood, natural, parametric, roof, architecture, rural, green
Production Technology
Fabrication techniques :
- combination of concrete and steel, building mostly underground with structural glazing and double cladding facade,
- large span roof construction from light steel framework,
- supporting tethraedical domes made of laminated wooden panels,
- structural glazed facade with large scale pivoting windows,
- pool plaza, designed in the same manner for outdoor and indoor pools – concrete base, cladded with Pebbletech finish, enabling complicated organic shapes.
Inspiration
Termalija Family Wellness is the latest in the series of projects which we have built at Terme Olimia in the last fifteen years and concludes the complete transformation of the spa complex. A lot of effort was invested into designing the buildings in such a way that they don't fill the space but connect it even more with the surrounding nature. The volume of necessary space required siting of a larger structure which couldn´t simply be buried below the grade like in our previous projects on the site. No longer being able to reference only the surrounding natural landscape, the solution was found in scale and form of surrounding vernacular structures. Large roof above water area was divided into sets of smaller segments to prevent its scale from overwhelming the surroundings. Viewed from a distance, the shape, colour, and scale of new clustered structure of tetrahedral volumes is a continuation of the cluster of surrounding rural buildings, which visually extends into the heart of the complex.
Project Duration
The project started in 2016 and was constructed in May 2018 in Podčetrtek, Slovenia.
Team Members
Dean Lah
Milan Tomac
Peter Sovinc
Nuša Završnik Šilec
Polona Ruparčič
Peter Karba
Carlos Cuenca Solana
Jurij Ličen
Tjaž Bauer
Sara Mežik
Eva Tomac
Jakob Kajzer
Maja Majerič
Goran Djokić
Image Credits
Image #1: Photographer Miran Kambič
Image #2: Photographer Miran Kambič
Image #3: Photographer Miran Kambič
Image #4: Photographer Miran Kambič
Image #5: Photographer Miran Kambič
Video Credits: Miran Kambič
PDF images: Photographer Miran Kambič
PDF plans: ENOTA

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