Ushi Tamborriello - Thermalbad & Spa

Ushi Tamborriello has been the project designer of the Irish-Roman Spa Ritual, which is located in the Termalbad & Spa Centre in Zurich. Those spas have been built in an ancient brewery all made of bricks, which create an antique and quiet atmosphere. The colour of the water and light, the location of the baths and the sound produce a wellness, tranquillity and an intimate moment. Indeed, the architecture of certain pool make the impression to be at the end of a cave with this turquoise water and warm brown, grey wall.

The Irish-Roman Spa Ritual has for concept to recreate the ancient bathing cultures and permit to the bathers to meditate, relaxing and have a unique cleansing ritual. This Spa Ritual is a journey of ten different baths with different themes that procure different experiences. The journey of the Irish-Roman Spa Ritual starts by the reception area where you are provided a towel and a bathrobe, then bathers have to dress up into an appropriate bath suit. After the preparation they are ready to start the ritual in the first pool which is the floral steam bath then the body peel, hot herbal steam bath, hot bath, Roman bath with massage jets, whirlpool, bubble lounger, shallow water area with underwater music, heated lounger, exercise bath and finish by three dry room.

Through these ten rooms, the body knows different statements: wet, warmed, cleaned, relaxed, meditated, cooled and dried.

Ushi Tamborriello used the water because it permits to relax the body and be carried by the movement and sound of water. Furthermore, because she thinks that the different states of water procure different feelings, experiences and actions to the body.