Rockwell Group作为纽约领先的建筑设计事务所，最近完成了位于纽约曼哈顿、面积达 35000 平方英尺（3252 平方米）的豪华水疗中心和浴室 “Bathhouse Flatiron” 的设计工作。Bathhouse以重新定义美式水疗体验为目标，将当代最好的康复实践融入到具有社会参与性的环境中，以时尚、现代的设计为重点，为客人提供特别的体验。

Rockwell Group, the leading New York-based architecture and design studio, has completed the design for Bathhouse Flatiron, a 35000 sf/3252 m luxury spa and banya in Manhattan, New York. Aiming to redefine what an American spa experience can be, Bathhouse incorporates the best of contemporary recovery practices in a socially engaging environment, offering guests an elevated experience with a sleek and modern design focus.

▼项目概览，overview of the project ©Emily Andrews

Rockwell Group为 Bathhouse 在曼哈顿的首家分店提出的设计理念是“英雄之旅”。“英雄之旅”是神话中的一个常见主题，涉及英雄踏上史诗般的旅程或探险，以勇敢的行动迎接挑战，并在个人成长的历险中脱胎换骨。从接待处到治疗室，游客体验的每一个环节都在讲述这一故事，帮助游客走上 “康复 “之路。为了实现这一目标，Rockwell Group创造了一种新的建筑语言，通过对光影的戏剧性运用，将石灰岩、凹槽玻璃、石材、混凝土、瓷砖和带有古铜色饰面的金属等柔和而富有情调的材料融入其中。

Rockwell Group’s design concept for Bathhouse ’s first Manhattan location was the idea of the Hero’s Journey, a commontrope from mythology that involves a hero who embarks on an epic journey or quest, encounters challenges with a decisiveapex and returns home transformed by the adventure of personal growth. Each component of the guest’s experience, fromreception to treatment rooms, plays on this narrative, helping visitors on their road to “recovery”. To achieve this, RockwellGroup created a new architectural language through dramatic use of light and shadow, incorporating a muted, moody material palette including travertine, fluted glass, stone, concrete, tile, and metals with a patina finish.

▼室内环境，interior space ©Emily Andrews

当客人通过一层的大堂进入Bathhouse，接待他们的是一个巨石般的接待台，由石灰岩制成。照明凹槽玻璃门强调了客人的旅程和过渡，厚重的黑石后墙中央有一个垂直的灯塔，就像 “隧道尽头的一盏明灯”。游客从一个小巧的黑色楼梯上走下来，这是引导他们踏上未知旅程的几道门槛中的第一道。游客来到地下两层中第一层的更衣室。

As guests enter Bathhouse through the ground floor lobby, they are welcomed by a boulder-like reception desk made of two types of travertine. Portals of illuminated fluted glass emphasise the guests’ journeys and transition, and a heavy blackstone back wall with a vertical beacon of light in the centre resembles a “light at the end of the tunnel”. Guests descend acompact black stair, the first of several thresholds guiding them on their journey into the unknown. Visitors emerge into the locker rooms at the first of two subterranean levels.

▼接待台，reception desk ©Adrian Gout