| Summary: | People, whose awareness of living in a healthy and vigorous way is constantly developing, prefers facilities that provide various opportunities by making use of thermal waters in order to reach modern and effective treatment methods and to continue their life in a more vigorous way. These facilities are spa structures, one of the current forms of the baths, which formed an important part of daily and social life in the past and have gained a unique place in the social memory. Today, the perception of a contemporary, healthy and relaxing recreation characterized by the terms SPA (selus per aqua / health from water) and wellness has become quite widespread. For the reason, it has been considered important to examine different architectural approaches from various regions and to identify distinctive features in such structures in order to meet international expectations. In this study, it is aimed to examine the spa space and its architecture by making discussions on the selected contemporary spa structures. By choosing spa structures from various geographical regions that attach different meanings to the bathing space, look at the architectural representation of the space from different points, try to reflect the same culture in different contexts during the design and planning phase, and seek contemporary equivalents to the bath space analyzes were made and similarities / differences were revealed. The perspective of today’s hammam space has been questioned through contemporary spa structures such as Therme Vals designed by Peter Zumthor, Les Bains des Docks designed by Jean Nouvel, Sidi Harazem designed by Jean Francois Zevaco, and the Blue Lagoon in Iceland, which is called the world’s largest spa. In the examined contemporary buildings, the architect who made the design benefited from natural factors such as climate, landforms and water; it has been seen that he has created original structures by integrating factors such as material use, light and color with the fiction coming from his own architecture. Today, ...
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