Beyond Rest is a floatation centre housed in an industrial warehouse in Collingwood, Melbourne.
Float tanks are used for both relaxation and rehabilitation purposes by a wide ranging client base and offer a range of physical and mental health benefits.
The space, designed by FMD Architects, is a temple of serenity.
The FMD design uses sacred geometry to plan the space as well as in the fine detail seen in the custom-made joinery and light fittings.
Sacred geometry derives forms, patterns, and proportions systems from nature.
These geometries have been incorporated in a range of sacred structures of all religious types and cultural origins for thousands of years.
The use of the geometry elevates the spatial experience, which is in line with the heightened mental state one achieves through floating.
The tanks are housed in spaces which have been designed to the proportions of a hen’s egg, which is another example of sacred geometry.
These then radiate around the space creating a circular plan around which the users circumambulate.
Support spaces including waiting areas and chillout zones flow from the pod spaces.
There appears to be no end to the spaces as you move around the space, reflecting philosophies of infinite cyclical life forces.
The continual movement of the curving walls and almost infinite spaces reinforce the elevated state you achieve while floating, then reconnect you to the ground as you leave.
The user passes through a series of spaces that gradually become less geometric and more abstract, enabling a feeling of disassociation from the outside world and opening possibilities to travel further within.
Project Details
Completion Date – 2017
Building Levels – 1
Project Team
Architecture
FMD Architects
FMD Architects is an architectural practice with extensive experience in architecture of varying scales, types and budgets. The core work of the practice is boutique commercial, hospitality and residential work. The focus on specific projects enables a high level of client service as well as an intense design process with rigorous detail.
Photography
Tatjana Plitt
Tatjana is an award-winning artist and architecture/interiors photographer based in Melbourne. She completed her Bachelor of Media Arts at RMIT University and has exhibited her work throughout Australia and internationally.
Inspired by the power of architecture to shape how we feel, think and behave, Tatjana creates images that capture the mood and emotion of spaces.
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