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The entrance is between the two main functions. The laboratories are on the right. An outer staircase functions as a joint. Their face towards the point of entry is open, leaving the herb extractors in common view. On the left, the hot baths are at the lowest level. The sound of the water and its reflections betray its presence and invites towards it. A claustra wall hides the visitor behind it, guiding him to the locker rooms. The rhythm of their doors breaks into a smaller one with a musical tone. Now the holes of the claustra wall are very close quick views towards the baths are possible. On the ground floor there is also a fitness area (with views to the baths) as well as a swimming pool. At the end of this wall, the baths are finally revealed. A large three-storey space with a grid of tall columns and beams to display its scale. The face is a concrete slab that rises 1 meter from the ground allowing a slit of light to pass through the columns into the space. A ramp leads to the basement. At its edge, behind a low wall, are the steam baths, body preparations for the temperatures to be exposed. Following the course, one can come across the various pools, and the most private baths, warm and cold. Through the staircase, there is the opportunity to go back to where the course started.
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Above the locker room corridor there are 5 massage rooms. In front of this corridor, the claustra wall continues. At the end, and above the gym there is a cafĂŠ-sitting area, for both bathers and non-bathers. The layout of the laboratories follows the production process. The raw materials, after sampling and after drying, are brought from the fields via a path to the first floor. From the same path one can enter or leave the rest of the building. So, in order to prevent this horizontal movement from interfering with the vertical movements needed between warehouses and laboratories, the solution has emerged in the intersection. With a stairway to the right, the raw materials descend to the ground floor to be stored first in the insecticide space. From there, the appropriate samples will be taken again for microbiological and chemical testing and then the corresponding extracts will be produced on the ground floor where they will be packaged. The end products are stored on the first floor, close to the pharmacy.
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