SPA CAMIRAL

Charles Moore defined three categories within the Japanese landscape tradition, perhaps equivalent to those of beautiful, picturesque and sublime. Shibui said that alludes to unaltered natural beauty. Quiet solitude in a natural setting would be suggested by the wabi. Finally, the sabi is intimately related to a certain rustic simplicity. The project is a dialogue between these three categories, understood as part of a landscape while connecting to the pre-existing volume of the hotel. It reinterprets the curved geometry of the original project, dissolving its limit with the landscape by resorting to materials and geometries typical of the agricultural logic of terraces and plantations. In its construction of a diffuse limit, it alters the pre-existing building, which has partly modified its program to adapt to a new reality.

The different corners of the building respond to the diversity of sensations of its occupants, looking for moments of more or less privacy, of relationship with the outside and distant views or of privacy, shelter and personal connection with nature. Two concatenated spaces link the private areas with the total personalization of the treatments and personal healing processes. The moment of transit to the water area is done through a small garden protected by a wall, like a private Eden, in the process of accommodating the senses. As the pavilions in Japanese gardens, just a pergola and a minimal enclosure return the feeling of being immersed in nature.