Indoor Pool And Spa

A2arquitectos created an indoor pool and spa for one particular of the most distinctive hotels on the eastern part of the island of Mallorca, Spain.

In 1967, a tiny hotel, Hotel Castell dells Hams, was established on the island of Mallorca amid the Mediterranean vegetation. Above time, and via subtle improvements and extensions, it has flip out to be a single of the most distinctive hotels on the eastern element of the island.
The final of the alterations, meant to celebrate the Mediterranean light and the area’s idyllic bond with nature, turned the hotel into a lot a great deal much more that just a vacation location. The operate centered on replacing the covering and enclosure of the recent heated pool and to develop an adjacent spa to supplement it.

Throughout improvement, the project was split into two independent zones, each and every single made to suit its own distinct objective. The mail pool spot is adorned with a series of square openings for windows in the roof that permit the light to flood into the place. The spa meant for skin therapy options and relaxation is positioned to give the visitors the best views of the surrounding landscape and is also filled with light in all rooms exactly in which light is needed. The placement of the two zones helps make them meet at a single point specifically in which 1 particular faces the other, so that they are interlinked. This gives accessibility to the two through the hotel lobby, which is linked to the mail pool area.

The pool was initially connected to what was when regarded as the back of the hotel, where it was confined to a room that was obviously becoming wasted. The challenge of the undertaking was not only to cease the new places from getting to be utilised as secondary traits, but to guarantee they had been utilized to highlight the hotel’s sunniest facade. Now completed, the roof is dotted with windows. This interplay of window holes in the roof generates a lovely dance of light reflections inside.

In the spa spot, the room is sculpted and colorful showers of light movement via the openings in the roof. This tends to make the producing itself component of the therapy, supplying the feeling of nicely-becoming made by nature when it is launched into the making, a feeling of total immersion for the visitor.

Photos by Laura Torres Roa &#038 Antonio Benito Amengual