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Architecture

Integrating Wellness into Residential Architecture

How our atelier collaborates with architects to specify plunge and thermal rooms into private homes.

Author

Mikael Rehn

Design Director

Published

January 2026

Reading

8 min read

The best wellness rooms are drawn at the same time as the rest of the house. Retrofits are possible, but early collaboration always produces a better result.

Service planning

Water, drainage, electrical and ventilation must be resolved early. A plunge is a piece of engineering as much as furniture.

Material continuity

The plunge should belong to the room. Continuity of stone, timber and joinery is what separates a residential installation from a commercial one.

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