Relax Underground, Prague Spa, Czech Spa Interior Design, Building, Architecture Development
Relax Underground in Prague
Commercial Spa Architecture in Czech Republic ? design by Lenka Míková
27 Aug 2018
Relax Underground
Main architect: Lenka Míková
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Relax Underground

A special ?relax? centre that serves as an hour hotel was a really unusual brief and a big challenge ? as well as the given underground space with no windows. The main issues were to avoid vulgarity while meeting all the specific requirements of such a hotel, how to create intimacy, how to use existing brick walls and vaults without resembling to a medieval torture chamber…

The approach was to create a world of its own, with a bit mysterious, slightly bizarre yet still elegant and most of all intimate mood. The interior is inspired by the aesthetics of David Lynch movies, the main corridor makes a tribute to a scene from Under the Skin movie. Intimacy is supported by the play with lighting effects. The rough masonry is contrasted by a minimalistic treatment of all the new surfaces that are united by a single colour. To emphasize a ?luxury? feeling there is also an additional decorative surface, almost at the edge of a kitsch – which doesn?t matter in this case…
The visitors seeking an asylum are welcome by inconspicuous street entrance and then led downstairs into the dark to a safety gate, which is a symbolic threshold. Once allowed they continue...