One St John
An interior precedent for luxury aquatic spaces combining horizontal banded stone with suspended acoustic or decorative ceiling slats and integrated wall washing.
- What we like about this project
- Slim suspension wires make the heavy ceiling baffles appear to float independently beneath the true ceiling.
Materials
- travertine
- timber
- water
- metal
Visual identifiers
- travertine-wall
- slatted-ceiling
- indoor-pool
- turquoise-water
Style tags
- contemporary
- luxury
- minimal-clean
Visual tags
- aquatic
- wellness
- luxurious
- symmetrical
- linear-rhythm
- Geometry
- Symmetrical composition featuring a horizontal plane of water at the base, a wide banded stone wall rising in the middle, and a rhythmic slatted ceiling overhead.
- Structural guess
- Suspended ceiling grid hung from concrete slab above.
- Spatial scale
- Intimate to medium-sized indoor pool enclosure, human scale relative to the water edge and stone wall.
- Lighting
- Upward lighting from the top of the stone wall washes the ceiling slats, creating soft grazing highlights and deep shadows between.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, meditative, and high-end hospitality atmosphere.
- Environmental context
- Enclosed indoor pool room with no exterior windows visible.
- Spatial experience
- A calm, enclosed aquatic hall where horizontal water and stone planes contrast with the vertical rhythm of suspended ceiling baffles.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict parallel repetition of dark ceiling slats suspended on thin vertical wires, creating a strong optical grid.
- Style reading
- Contemporary luxury wellness interior
- Program
- Indoor swimming pool / spa
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior
- Materials
- travertine, timber, water, metal
- Visual identifiers
- travertine-wall, slatted-ceiling, indoor-pool, turquoise-water
- Style tags
- contemporary, luxury, minimal-clean
- Visual tags
- aquatic, wellness, luxurious, symmetrical, linear-rhythm
- Geometry
- Symmetrical composition featuring a horizontal plane of water at the base, a wide banded stone wall rising in the middle, and a rhythmic slatted ceiling overhead.
- Structural guess
- Suspended ceiling grid hung from concrete slab above.
- Spatial scale
- Intimate to medium-sized indoor pool enclosure, human scale relative to the water edge and stone wall.
- Lighting
- Upward lighting from the top of the stone wall washes the ceiling slats, creating soft grazing highlights and deep shadows between.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, meditative, and high-end hospitality atmosphere.
- Environmental context
- Enclosed indoor pool room with no exterior windows visible.
- Spatial experience
- A calm, enclosed aquatic hall where horizontal water and stone planes contrast with the vertical rhythm of suspended ceiling baffles.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict parallel repetition of dark ceiling slats suspended on thin vertical wires, creating a strong optical grid.
- Style reading
- Contemporary luxury wellness interior
- Program
- Indoor swimming pool / spa
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior