Art Sauna is a spa that is part of the Gösta Serlachius Museum in Mänttä, Finland, designed by Mendoza Partida in 2022.

Description
Art Sauna is a continuation of the emotional journey that the Go?sta Serlachius Museum offers visitors. The new construction, subtle, intimate and domestic in scale, joins the site and blends in with the scenario of dialogue between art, nature and architecture that it proposes.
Architecture practices Mendoza Partida (He?ctor Mendoza, Mara Partida) and BAX Studio (Boris Bezan), winners in 2011 of the international competition organized by the Serlachius Foundation to extend its museum with the construction of the Go?sta pavilion, have brought the logic and common sense they applied then to the new space. To this end, one of the main architectural principles in the design of Art Sauna involved integrating the building into the jpurney, merging it with the terrain and making it part of the landscape. The sauna is an inseparable part of Finnish tradition, so much so that it was the first aspect of this Nordic country?s culture to be added to the UNESCO?s List of Intangible Cultural Heritage. The Art Sauna project, integrating this culture into an experience of art, nature and architecture, was one of the three nominations for the 2022 Finlandia Prize for Architecture, awarded for the past nine years by the Finnish Association of Architects (SAFA).
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Since its extension in 2014, the experience offered to visitors by the Go?st...