EFA studio di architettura

Eastern Seas

PLACE
Salsomaggiore Terme, Parma

STATUS
Achieved

CHRONOLOGY
2008

CATEGORY
Interior architecture, community buildings, exhibition design.

Declaredly contemporary,
the intervention dialogues with the historical context through the use of materials,
colours and suggestions related to the building's history.

The work is part of a broader framework of actions aimed at upgrading, strengthening and enhancing the performance offers related to the concept of thermal wellness of Terme di Salsomaggiore spa.
More specifically, the work provides the Lorenzo Berzieri establishment and the wellness system connected to it with a series of pools for public use with a high functional and performance profile, in line with the most up-to-date trends in the sector in Europe.
The site of the project is a portion of the basement of the plant, an area that has not been used for years and is now in a state of visible degradation and underuse.
The project, clearly contemporary, dialogues with the historical context through the use of materials, colours and suggestions referring to the building's history, without suffering the important, and at the same time cumbersome, historical weight. The architecture of the interiors declares that it is the fruit of the era in which the project is expressed, while respecting the spaces and forms of the historic building.
The new spaces represent the inevitable implementation of the offer requested today by the wellness market and, more specifically, by the thermal wellness: highly equipped pools, spaces for socialising, places for relaxing merge into a single entity characterised by original and customised settings and suggestions in order to identify the new soul of the spa.
The matrix of the intervention is governed by the desire to enhance the building while respecting its high historical value: the objective is not to damage the original technological units and vertical and horizontal technical elements, using minimally invasive and reversible solutions.
The project, covering about 500 square metres, is one of the fundamental elements in the relaunch and renewal of the spa's image and performance, with the aim of opening up to an increasingly broader public willing to invest time and resources in the care of their psycho-physical well-being.

CREDITS

DESIGNERS

Emilio Faroldi
Maria Pilar Vettori
Pietro Chierici
Dario Cea
Francesca Pesci
Laura Piazza

 

COLLABORATORS

Francesca Cipullo
Roberto Grassi

CLIENT
Terme di Salsomaggiore e Tabiano spa

PHOTOGRAPHS

Marco Buzzoni