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Blue Clay Country Spa

Latvia


Program Spa, guest house, service house
Client SRED Global
Type Hospitality
Budget Confidential
Size 720 m2
Status Competition
Collaborators: Cass Nakashima

The Blue Clay Country Spa (BCCS) competition brief imagines a seamless relationship between the private experience of retreat and the shared experience of a spa. Our proposal weaves this interconnected program through the site, engaging its most prominent features: the oak trees and lake. The  result of this makes for a curated architectural narrative as the visitor makes their way through the site, a narrative which is both prescribed and open ended. The undulations of the building's form creates an interplay between intimate moments that embrace the trunks of the oak trees and more expansive panoramic vistas that open out to the landscape. Almost hidden from view and never experienced as singular object, the building is not an imposition on its context but a platform from which to appreciate it.

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The programmatic needs of the BCCS beget a design that is both introverted and extroverted, as dictated by the three major program elements. At their most basic, these ideas can be expressed architecturally as courtyard buildings with their focus and circulation either oriented inward or outward. We begin here and then proceed to split each archetype... ...and attach the elements to create a seamless whole. At the same time, splitting the courtyard archetype opens the spaces to the natural beauty of the site. This basic concept is then adapted to the specific idiosyncrasies of the project site. At the same time, the form is expanded where necessary to accommodate the program. The result of these interventions is a building form that connects the three distinct major program while provided each a specific identity. Each program element also benefits from a unique courtyard quality, each organized around an existing oak tree. Finally, the three programs are connected to the site and the landscape via a continuous indoor/outdoor circulation vein which snakes through the site and building to create a curated narrative as the user navigates the space.


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