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Spa and Wellness Facilities at Elounda Beach Resort

This is a project by Davide Macullo Architects and it is located at Crete, Greece. There are seven images for Spa and Wellness Facilities at Elounda Beach Resort.

: © Enrico Cano

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Designer's statement

This refurbishment project of the Elounda Beach Resort Hotel penthouse into luxury spa and wellness facilities treats the internal and external spaces as a whole. The aim of the project is to ensure a visual continuity between the internal and external spaces but moreover, to extend the space beyond its physical boundaries and into the surrounding landscape. Visitors’ perception of the spaces is heightened and the feeling is one of ‘floating’ above this beautiful Cretan setting.

The series of ‘white boxes’ which host the various spa functions afford the structure a spatial harmony and the material choices create a sense of lightness, freshness and purity expected of a place in which body and soul are pampered and treated.

The interior spaces, characterised by the use of ‘light’ materials such as glass and translucent panels for walls and ceilings, create a calming visual neutrality and are gently animated by the effects of reflection, while the surrounding landscape dominates the space and sheds its colours.

The essentiality of the materials and the graphic sign of the ‘leaves’ pattern, contribute to stretch the perspective throughout an atmosphere of pastel colours and lightness, emphasised by the use of indirect artificial lighting at night.

Details/Credits

Client: Helios Hotel
Location: Grand Resort, Elounda Beach, Crete, Greece
Function: Spa and Wellness Facilities
Design participation: Makis Lahanas (Partner Architect), Athens, Greece
Interior design: Davide Macullo, Lugano, Switzerland
Contractor: B&B, Milan, Italy
Lighting design: Ing. Thomas Maissen, Chur, Switzerland
Structural engineer: YLTD, Athens, Greece
Electrical engineer: LDK ,Athens, Greece
Pool engineer: Schneider Acquatec, Staad, Switzerland
Construction supervision: Vassilis Tsikouras, Athens, Greece
Structure (materials): Steel structure, insulated gipsboard panels
Finish (exterior): White paint
Finish (interior): Floor: teak, Ceilings: Policarbonate, Windows: VitroCSA Suisse, Joinery: Laquered timber, screenprinted glass, Bathrooms: Bisazza, marble, Phillip Stark (Alessi) Fittings
Storeys: 1 level
Building area: 1400 m2
Total floor area: 1400 m2
Photographs: Enrico Cano, Como, Italy