The key challenge was to make this building, which until now has been erased by housing, re-emerge in its landscape. To succeed in creating a meeting place, we wanted to combine a restaurant/bar space and a spa with the principal programme of a public aquatic leisure centre. The project was designed as a series of settings for the visitor, using the architectural obstacles to artificially create distance between each of them. The visitor’s view is filtered by architecture that is at times exaggerated and dramatised.This work respects the qualities of this place and accentuates its characteristics, using them as a way to stage the programme.
