The Ultimate Wellness

A luxury villa designed with a holistic concept of wellbeing. The Ultimate Wellness, in Loosdrecht, Netherlands, combines a gym featuring cutting-edge fitness machines with traditional thermal treatments. The large surfaces in Verde Alpi and Pietra di Savoia Antracite (from the I Naturali collection) and Grigio (from the Calce collection) were used for the flooring and wall cladding in virtue of their ability to combine prestigious aesthetics with functional qualities which make them ideal for wet and slippery areas, and anywhere the highest levels of hygiene are required.

Location Loosdrecht, Netherlands
Year 2023
Design Studio Elementr Studio
Applications Cladding & Flooring, Flooring
Project Type Private House

The Next Frontier in Wellbeing

When luxury residential projects put wellbeing and a healthy lifestyle at the forefront, the results will be something like The Ultimate Wellness: a prestigious private villa in Loosdrecht, Netherlands, designed by ElementR.

The Ultimate Wellness features a fitness area tailored to the needs of its residents, equipped with a gym, swimming pool, sauna, and ice room. The spa area is structured into a hot zone, with 90 degree Celsius sauna and 40 degree Celsius steam room – featuring an evocative starry sky – and a cold zone, with a cryochamber at four degrees Celsius. The wellbeing area enjoys a view over the open-air swimming pool: a rectangular pool immersed in green and the scent of rosemary and lavender, helping residents to enter a deep state of relaxation. The same concept which marries wellness and prestige characterises the entertainment zone, with a bar area, pool, table football, and seating area, as well as the living area and, on the upper floor, the sleeping area with adjacent bathroom. Extensive use of glass provides a view over the surrounding landscape from all points, effectively bringing it into the building to create a harmonious synergy between the indoor areas and the nature outdoors.

Aesthetics and Technology: a Winning Combination

The Laminam collections chosen by ElementR for this ambitious project combine two characteristics which are far apart yet not incompatible: very high visual and tactile quality, and the functional qualities required in “problematic” environments such as the fitness areas: the importance of a hygienic, easy-to-clean environment with surfaces capable of withstanding the high humidity and heat typical of a sauna, and the frigid temperature of the cryochamber.

Cladding the back wall of the swimming pool is Verde Alpi from the I Naturali collection, a bright green with white veining, a colour combination reminiscent of the contrasts between the Alpine woods and the snowy peaks of the Aosta Valley, where the stone originates. The Verde Alpi on the back wall of the pool creates an interesting rhythm with the white of the steps, the blue of the pool itself, and the green of the surrounding plants.

The Grigio colour of the Calce collection – a subtle yet particularly stylish mid-grey – was used for the flooring of the pool and the wellness area.

The wall cladding of the wellness area is finished with large slabs from the I Naturali collection, this time in the Pietra di Savoia Antracite colour: a fully fledged architectural skin created to clad indoor and outdoor environments with excellent performance.

The Ultimate Wellness is the perfect example of how the concept of beauty and refinement can be interpreted from an ultra-modern, high-tech standpoint, with flooring, wall cladding and furnishings in high-quality materials, paired with futuristic machinery. A combination – beauty and performance – which Laminam’s large slabs embody to perfection: their extraordinary aesthetics are paired with technical characteristics which make these surfaces suitable even for the most heavily trafficked environments, and the most challenging and problematic conditions.