water station_city spa
studio Hájek & Šépka

Olověný Dušan 2008 award :
_ten best school projects
_the best design studio

Spa in urban context?

• _enclosed
• _space oriented to the sky
• _behind a wall
• _monumental space
• _intimate function

Water station?

• _as a value added to the place
• _allowing extra use of the area
• _huge & heavy volume of water
• _avoid pumping up of the water

The wall

• _delimits the heart of the spa
• _contains all the communications
• _forms the support structure

Functions

• _upper part_opened to the sky_spa
• _lower part_the water station

Water tank

• _13 000 m3 of drinking water
• _supply for an important part of Prague
• _the wall protects this water

Cells

• _all the spa services hanged on the wall
• _each function has its own type of cell

Interior

• _no contact with the outer world
• _diffused lightning in the cells