In the Roman mythology, Aigai was a kingdom of deep-sea, where Neptune, god of freshwater and the sea, restore his energies. It is a place where anything disturb him and at the same time he knows all what happens on the surface.

Acqua Spanadae or Salut Per Aqua – It still remain uncertain the etymological origin of the word SPA. It is a fact that there are 5.000-year history very well recorded about our relationship with water in aquatic rituals of body treatment or spiritual purification. This history is inseparably linked with that in Middle East, and since then is an important part of our relation with nature in the pursuit for health, balance and relaxation.

The Spa is designed as an urban oasis. A place of meditation, serenity and relaxation. The construction of this place looks for a different universe spring, not necessarily in opposition to the “exterior universe”, but in search for an equilibrium and stillness, usually disregarded in the places we inhabit day-to-day.

As coins, there are two sides to this wall. Wall that closes is not only a defensive wall. If on the one hand it may seem confrontation, it is purposeful to improve a strong and clear intention of relation with the city. On the other hand, it is a welcoming wall, of internal organization, of imperceptible subtlety from outside.

Slightly raised from the ground, it takes advantage of the setting back imposed by the urban laws to provide a transition space between the collective and the individual, in view of the corner condition of the 720sqm original plot. The façade in concrete, finely textured, works as a mediating skin. It frames the wide ceramic tile panel and the large vertical garden. The large green wall round the corner, where it wraps and stretch to the other opposite side of the plot. The constructed surface area of 1.200sqm is distributed among the ground floor, the upper volume, and a semi-underground floor, where the garage and facilities rooms are placed.

The Spa is accessed by a footbridge, which starts from the garden -of public use and reception-, cross a reflecting pool, and rises onto the platform developed beside the large ceramic tile panel. In the opposite corner, a glass door gives access to the reception room, where a small open-air patio with a reflecting pool covering all its extension, provides de necessary light to the room. Light dramatizes the beauty. Wind and rain enters the oasis and qualify the nuances of life. Architecture is a way through people could feel the nature.