Veil-Suited 3-Storey Fitness Centre

This custom designed gym and health centre demonstrates how to do more out of less and it showcases the skill and dexterity of its designers. It is located on a difficult site, a small and angular piece of land near a major highway with its main frontage facing west and to compound its problems, the terrain slopes from the front to the rear where the site entry is located. The completed building appears to take advantage of these disadvantages.

 

The terrain is carved to create a sub-basement car park, seeming to elevate the building onto a plinth especially when viewed from the highway. The angles of the site are “borrowed” to shape the building whose sculptural form befits its small stature. The quest to create more out of less can be seen throughout the building in its deliberate economy of finishes; what appears to be a lush and complex sun shade on its façade turns out to be affordable irrigation mats mounted in a matrix.