- Area 830 m², Built May 2018
The Fit Club and Spa is situated in the first underground floor of a residential and retail building in a new populated area the West of Tirana. It is equipped with almost all the machines and spaces for an indoor gym facility, as well as the store, laundry and staff dressing rooms, and spaces for the AC machines and boiler room in the garage floor below.
Even though it is underground, it is accessed directly from the sidewalk and surrounded by windows looking to open corridors offering natural ventilation and light.
In the Gym space I used the architectural language and palette with reference to exterior design in the gym spaces (exposed systems and AC vents, metallic surfaces, concrete gray tiles, exposed brick, vertical green wall) and the gym users described it as a warm and homelike interior space, making them comfortable during gym time.
The Spa as part of the club, welcomes the guests to a totally different space, dedicated to relax and body wellness.
As you walk to the corridor from the gym, the interior transform to a calm grotto where the body comes to direct contact with the elements: wood of the bamboo from the walls and ceiling, stone from the salt wall, water from the jacuzzi, fire in the sauna, ice in the bowl from the ice machine.
The Spa also includes 4 massage and beauty treatment rooms as well as a solar tan cabin.
The design and decoration not only fits all of the above in a 95 m² space, but also gives a spacious and relaxing feeling to the guests.
Status: Built
Location: Tirana, AL
My Role: Interior Design and Supervision