World Class Fitness Huaming, “Cloud Atlas”

Sergey Ananiev

• Architects

World Class Botanical Garden is a new spot on the Moscow network clubs map — and is another fitness club implemented by the VOX Architects design. The premium World Class Botanical Garden fitness club is located on the 3rd floor of the multifunctional business center "Huaming Park" with a Chinese landscape park on the adjacent territory. This context defined the character of the interior and is supported with specially designed lighting solutions and supergraphics.

photo_credit Sergey Ananiev — Sergey Ananiev

The red object behind the World Class reception desk at the entrance sets visitors for activity, tones up and invites them inside.

The plan of the club resembles an open fan. The entrance recreation area in the center is laced up with a paned hall that connects various functional spaces.

The World Class Botanical Garden is equipped with the state-of-the-art sports equipment and boasts spacious locker rooms and a 900 m² gym, functional training areas, RPM, group programs and martial arts zones, a hammam and sauna, a large swimming pool with 4 lanes 25 meters each, a Jacuzzi and a children pool. The fitness clubs of the new formation created for the World Class by VOX Architects have specially designed children areas that are detached as far as possible from the workout zones: a locker room, a playroom and a children fitness zone. Design concept:Brush Stroke.

An integral part of the entire concept of the World Class network interiors is a unique graphical language that reveals the spirit of place. The source of inspiration for this project was Chinese painterly motifs.

Motivating mantras on robust concrete walls are an integral part of the World Class clubs interior. Here the pep phrases accompany the visitors as they move along the corridor from the training zones, past the pool, to the group classes and martial arts zones. The idioms written in Chinese characters mean: "Thriving with health and strength", "Very strong, as if iron-cast", "Tiger's back and bear's waist".

The pool is the semantic center and the focal point of the entire fitness club, the concentration of light and air in it. A huge lamp above the pool basin imitates the circular movement of the calligrapher's brush, with a single stroke forms the sense of space, its plasticity and rhythm.