Aqua Centre Tomsk

Design concept/ feasability study

in progress

 

Space of extremes

A spa located in the vast open tundra outside Tomsk, Sibiria normally calls for a black box, a highly artificial condition cut off from its context.

Inspired by the landscape with its subtle undulations and radically changing appearance between winter and summer we opted instead for a building that is characterized by the dialogue between its tropical interior waterscapes and the surrounding landscape.

This approach goes beyond the familiar transposition into a tropical paradise: it choreographs the experience of both worlds side by side, intensifying each other- more akin to the contemporary virtual reality of zapping through TV, choosing an ecclectic soundtrack on an Ipod or flying from Moscow to Crete in less than 3 hours.

The project offers glimpses of the external reality as by opening the eyes slightly from time to time when having a daydream. When sipping a Pina Colada on a deckchair next to the pool- the Tundra has never looked so good.