area 103+ | extra ordinary

location: Simone Micheli

year: 2008

Inside the famous Hotel Exedra Nice in Nice, property of Boscolo Hotels, in the basement ground rises the amazing wellness centre, signed by the architect Simone Micheli. “Planning a space designed for the psycho-physical regeneration and recreational relax, in the beautiful Costa Azzurra, means to converse with the existing historical background through the creation of emotional and anti-mimetic places connected to our contemporaneity, seduced by the will to exalt the senses of the guests through a project with strong and exciting features that develop into sinestesya. A new step towards the future according to my architectural belief and my content and formal benchmarks, for excellent dreams and realizations” (Simone Micheli). It’s about an iper-contemporary work, with a so strong expressive point of view so strong to become an iconical reference for the future of wellness centers in the world, able to involve users in a 3D pluri-sensorial dimension never seen before. From this conceptual forewords was born the new wellness centre of Exedra Nice Hotel.It is a 3D expression of the possible and wanted union between architecture, sensations and wellness, from the synergy between basic and very functional furnishings, plastic and fluid forms, and the guest’s private experience that goes through this space, inside a wonderful dream that aims to the unreal. It is a sinestetic, visual, conceptual and volumetric reflection, that means to describe a path for the celebration of the relationship between man, built up space and wellness, between theoretical dimensions and composed truth, between matter, surfaces, light, colour, sound, fragrance and water. An interactive place, hybrid, unusual and emotional, characterized by a reception zone, distribution paths, man and woman locker rooms, fitness area, treatment cabins, wet zone with steam bath, steam bath, showers, ice-maker and relax zone, and a swimming pool with multiples water plays. Everything is designed to include and cherish the guest in this dream: a new wellness center able to live even independently from the hotel. The walls are covered with fluid plastics and dynamic surfaces realized in expanded polyurethane and finished with plaster and shiny white resin, wisely set against rigorous mirror wall coverings and frosted mirror. In this way it creates a white curtain that dresses all the walls with a curvy and organic flow, and a play of lights and shadows that this surfaces projects on theirselves that de-materializes and transpose the stereotyped image of the box-space in a scenography thick of emotions. We cross this spaces walking on a rough flooring in natural Prun stone, and set against the plasticity of everything that’s around us we can find the clean and essential furnishings and the ceiling coloured by the hole in the ceiling.