A tropical garden can be seen from within this spa in Sukhumvit, Bangkok, which architecture studio Space Popular has designed with soothing green and white treatment rooms.
Infinity Wellbeing is set within a building on one of the side streets, or "sois", that lead off Sukhumvit's main road.
It is entered via a luscious garden planted with dragon trees and lipstick palms, which Space Popular hopes will offset the shops, food vendors and towering skyscrapers that cluster around the spa.
Above image: the garden that surrounds the spa's entrance. Top image: one of the spa's treatment rooms.
"Designing the arrival and departure sequence is perhaps the most challenging element as the interior ambience is highly contrasting with the bustling street atmosphere in Bangkok," the studio's founders, Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg, told Dezeen. "Through the leaves of the garden, the spa is in strong contrast to the street with its often chaotic collage of sounds and sights."
The spa's reception is decked out in calming shades of green and white
The leafy plants also help obscure views through to the interior of the spa, where the studio has continued the calming ambience by utilising a serene colour palette of off-whites and pastel greens.
Lesmes and Hellberg were particularly inspired to use the colour after coming across a local green-hued marble.
Chairs in the spa are part of Space Popular's latest furniture collection
At the centre of the reception ...