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Front facade of Bodrum Hydrotherapy Centre: a colonnaded hall on the upper floor above a screen of vertical slats, the building's name on the wall and the passage between the two blocks

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Bodrum Hydrotherapy Centre

Competition entry for a physiotherapy and hydrotherapy centre

Team
Selen Baş Ağca, Kutbeddin Ağca, Ethem Ünal
Location
Bodrum, Muğla
Design year
2024
Status
Participant
Role
Design and visualisation
Type
Competition, Healthcare
Programme
Hydrotherapy pool, physiotherapy hall, treatment rooms, sauna, café and offices; car park in the basement; basement, ground and two upper floors

A competition entry for a physiotherapy and hydrotherapy centre among pine trees in Bodrum. The building is composed of two low blocks of white prisms and a bridge floor joining them; it is entered from the courtyard between the blocks. The ground floor holds the hydrotherapy pool with columns on all four sides, changing and treatment rooms, a timber sauna opening onto a gravel courtyard and a café in a separate wing. The first floor holds the physiotherapy hall, glazed between columns on three sides, with treatment rooms and offices arranged around the inner courtyard; a partial second floor is given to offices and meeting rooms. The basement carries the car park with its ramp and the technical rooms. The coffered ceilings of the pool and the halls, together with the colonnades, set the language of the building. Two lift cores, a ramp into the pool and a level courtyard entrance keep circulation flat and wide for wheelchair users. Plans of the basement, ground and two upper floors, sections and elevations were produced from a single model.

For the competition timetable, the jury and the submitted panels see the competition entry.

  • Front facade: the colonnaded physiotherapy hall on the upper floor above a screen of vertical slats, the building's name lettered on the wall and the passage between the two blocks; a paved forecourt in front, lawn and pines to the left
  • Hydrotherapy pool: coffered ceiling, slender columns on three sides, a railed ramp descending into the large pool and users in the water
  • Physiotherapy hall on the upper floor: treadmills and exercise equipment under a coffered ceiling, glazing between columns on both sides and a view over the roofs to the hills
  • Rear facade: a doctor talking with a wheelchair user on the lawn; the café terrace on the left, the bridge and passage in the middle, the glazed colonnade of the pool hall on the right
  • Sauna: a timber cabin with benches on both sides, a gravel courtyard with a single sapling beyond the glass door
  • Inner courtyard: a single tree in a lawn bed with a seating edge under the bridge volume, people walking; colonnade and pines beyond
  • Rest courtyard: white walls, a single tree in a gravel bed set into the paving, loungers inside two deep openings in the facade
  • Aerial view: white flat-roofed blocks, two roof courtyards, the road alongside, pines and neighbouring cube houses
  • Location plan: the plot boundary within a sparse fabric of detached houses, roads and green areas
  • Site plan: road and parking bays on one side, woodland on the other; blocks, courtyards and seating slabs
  • Basement plan: car park with ramp, two vertical cores and service rooms
  • Ground floor plan: the pool hall with columns on all four sides, changing and treatment rooms, sauna and gravel courtyard, the entrance courtyard between the two blocks and the café wing
  • First floor plan: the physiotherapy hall with columns on three sides, treatment rooms and offices around the inner courtyard
  • Second floor plan: offices and a meeting room in the office block only
  • Sections: the coffered physiotherapy hall, the inner courtyard open through two floors and the office block; the pool hall and its basin descending to basement level
  • Front and rear elevations: the vertical-slat screen and upper-floor colonnade; the café terrace and the colonnade of the pool hall
  • Side elevations: sloping ground, retaining wall and lower terrace