Work in progress
Work in progress at the worksite of the Leopoldine.
Opening in summer 2011

Leopoldine Spa will become a big thermal beauty farm where all the most modern wellbeing treatments, fitness and beauty treatments will be available, including a 2.400 sq metre thermal pool and a 4.800 sq metre wellness centre which retains the building's charming eighteenth-centrury characteristics.
The main characteristics of this new centre will be its precious materials, state-of-the-art technology and thermal water everywere.



The Plan

The whole plan develops within the wider project of re-qualification and renovation of Terme di Montecatini. A systematic project with creative structures that form and find their definition among spaces generated by the interlacing and superimposition of water ponds, terracing units and overhangs at different heights, as if they were lying on the natural landscape. These project elements are proposed as true sculptures that are modelled by the main element of the entire Terme Project: water.


Through the exploitation of the Park, i.e. renovation and accomplishment works with new routes, the aim of the project is to give new value and functions to the building of Terme Leopoldine, in order to create ideals spaces for Thermal Wellbeing, intended for health treatments and maintenance by means of diagnosis, therapies and thermal courses. Nowadays the thermal medicine is a science that, like any other medical discipline, uses the diagnostic and therapeutic aids made available by the technological progress and knowledge and promotes the scientific research. This rigorous approach is dictated by the will and need of fully exploiting the therapeutic properties of our hydro-mineral patrimony.



Terme “Le Leopoldine – Thermal Wellbeing”
Architectural project: Massimiliano & Doriana Fuksas
Structural project: AI Engineering – Torino – Preliminary and final project
Studio Sarti – Rimini – Executive project
Plant engineering: AI Engineering – Torino
Original project “Terme Leopoldine”: 1775, Architect Paoletti
Subsequent works: in the Twenties and Nineties, renovation and maintenance works, not always in conformity with the original structure


Interiors:
Total surface: 4746 sq.m.
Ground floor: 2373 sq.m.
First floor: 2373 sq.m.

External part:
Total area: 8239 sq.m.
Total area of swimming-pools: 2150 sq.m.
Surface of “Crater” (existing pond): 490 sq.m.
Surface of the new swimming-pool: 1660 sq.m.
Surface of the footbridge: 952 sq.m. Wellbeing areas, ground floor:
Roman Bath:
-Frigidarium – Indoor swimming-pool (from this, you can go directly to the outdoor one). Hot and cold alternating showers with hydromassage bath and chromatic and musical effects
-Tepidarium – Kneipp method course, hydro-massage bath with chromatic and musical effect, massage with special soaps and aromatherapy
-Calidarium – Sauna, Bio-sauna, Turkish bath
-Senses room – relaxing rooms where the client can enjoy aromas and pleasant projections
-Outdoor swimming-pool divided into four areas at different temperatures, from 30° to 40°C,
where wellbeing-points will be set up: hydro-massage seats, strong showers for cervical massage,
water falls.
-Central crater with thermal water at 36°-38°C with a 2% salinity rate
-Refreshment bar

Wellbeing areas, first floor:
-Aesthetic Treatments – massages, holistic treatments, natural mud therapy, aesthetic medicine
- Fitness Area