Atelier Caracas fashions Venezuelan day spa on 2001: A Area Odyssey

Formica panels with round oculi type the partitions of the suites in 2020: A Spa Odyssey, a day spa in Venezuela that Atelier Caracas has based mostly on the units of a Stanley Kubrick movie.

Modelled after the movie 2001: A Area Odyssey, the spa is positioned on a busy avenue in Caracas, Venezuela. The shoppers enlisted native studio Atelier Caracas to design an “out of this world” spa secluded from the bustling metropolis surroundings.

“We had been approached by a shopper asking us to design a day spa in Caracas, stating actually that they wished one thing ‘out of this world’,” the studio mentioned.

“Upon contemplating this we determined to behave faithfully on the shopper’s concept and create an absolute distinction to the city context across the location with an structure aiming to evoke the imagery of outer area, the mysterious and ‘different worldly’.”

After finding out visible features in science fiction motion pictures, the studio got here up with the idea for a spa with furnishings and structure designed to imitate 2001: A Area Odyssey’s settings and characters.

“We might endeavour by way of the deconstruction of the units and scenography created by Stanley Kubrick and Harry Lange to generate greater than a spa, to create an area of surreal views, a diffuse threshold between earth and outer area,” added the studio.

2001: A Area Odyssey conjures up Brooksbank & Collins’ espresso desk

Massive formica boards with rounded edges are fronted with round cutouts and full of opaque glass home windows. The constructions are supposed to reference the synthetic intelligence being HAL from the film.

Beige curtains cowl the entrance of every unit to supply privateness for patrons throughout their therapies. Further rose-hued glass separations connect to the panels blurring the view between the cubicles.

An enormous stone, harking back to a meteorite, was discovered exterior of town and is located as an ornamental component beneath the black formica reception desk.

Inexperienced vegetation and faux grass carpet are among the many particulars added to the area as reminders of life on Earth.

An uncovered air flow system and pink pipes span throughout the ceiling, which is masked in pink stucco. Different furnishings within the spa embrace a pale cupboard fronted with giant formica knobs and a wall of mirror panels.

In 2019, Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic curated an exhibition that explores the life and work of Kubrick, the movie’s director. Furnishings and replicas of units from 2001: A Area Odyssey had been among the many objects on show.

Additionally impressed by area Solely If Structure designed a espresso store in a New York subway station with futuristic parts, whereas London design studio Brooksbank & Collins’ Kubrick desk makes use of white Thassos marble to imitate the “visible language” utilized in 2001: A Area Odyssey.

Images is by Saúl Yuncoxar.