Gym equipment of Fitness California. - Gitaly contract

FITNESS CALIFORNIA

Fitness California

Not just a gym

Fitness California

Not just a gym

16, Chemin de la Voie-Creuse street, Geneva, CH, 1202
https://www.letsgofitness.ch/club/geneve-nations

”’Atelier by California”, located near Place des Nations, is a highly technological fitness room. Its large industrial design surface is characterized by dark hues that can be found on black walls, grey cladding bricks, floor cement and even iron sheets and trim.

Large windows and large mirrors bring contrast and brightness. The main idea was to create a space that could be more than a gym, a place where people can meet and discuss about common interests in sport.

APPROACH

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    Project Assessment
    Focus on customer needs, concept and budget.
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  • Project management
  • Economic Analysis
    Design study defines a correct and sustainable budget.
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  • Engineering
    Comprehensive and detailed engineering for every item.
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  • Detail drawings
    Shop drawings for the production of the items.
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  • Production and quality control
    Monitor on each phase and quality guaranteed.
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  • Purchasing
    Local artisans and famous brands for competitive prices.
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  • Logistics
    Optimize delivery times and costs so as to meet clients’ deadlines.
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  • Complete fit out and installation
    Strong direction, dedicated teams to respect the timetable.
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Key points

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Production and quality control

The aim of achieving high standards in quality and style, within the agreed budgets, is realized in a complete renovation of the interiors, based on technical solutions tailored to the customer’s needs. Our team dealt with the research, selection, assembly and installation of high-performance technical materials in terms of durability and hygiene. All this without renouncing to the industrial but sophisticated style, where the combination of design and functionality has created an exclusive and trendy project.

CONCEPT

The aim of the project carried out in 2015 was the rational distribution of 1.300 square metres of surface area, in accordance with technical and sports training requirements. CrossFit, spinning, aerobics, equipment, sauna and relaxation are the main activities for which the various functional areas are intended. The large volume with imposing heights and large skylights on the ceiling is divided into independent volumes, each of which is designed using state-of-the-art solutions. These include the installation of rgb LEDS and the laying of technical flooring differentiated on the basis of different stress loads. In the changing room area, customized lockers with an aged finish and innovative locks are installed, while the shower area is paved with non-slip grey stoneware treated with innovative antibacterial technologies. Compliance with regulations in force concerning comfort and safety goes hand in hand with design and chromatic consistency.

Design Manager: Irene Izzo

The spacious high-tech sports centre was built according to the current trend in industrial design and its planning was a real challenge. However, we managed to find the right combination of design and functionality, resulting in an exclusive and trendy project, the design of which was extremely stimulating for me.

Project challenge

A special gym

As well as the need to find suitable materials in terms of quality and peculiar to the various rooms of the Fitness California, each with a specific function, the client’s idea was to create a new kind of gym which would be a place for all the people who train at a professional or amateur level to meet and share. This led to the idea of including a bar where only snacks and drinks recommended during training are served, with tables and lounge seating where clients can socialize

ADVANTAGES: TIME AND MONEY SAVED

Months of realization

Time saving

Financial saving

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location

Geneva –  Swiss

16, Chemin de la Voie-Creuse street, Geneva, CH, 1202

customer

Fitness California 

Not Just a Gym

I-Life building. - Gitaly contract

I-LIFE

I-Life

The “Pantheon” of real estate

I-Life

The “Pantheon” of real estate

8A, Route Suisse street, Etoy, CH, 1163

An elegant plasticity of reflective glass and metal surfaces is the true landmark of the new Etoy complex. We have created the new design centre for I-Life, which aims to bring together all the professions in the world of construction, real estate and interior design. Articulated in a complex functional variety, the shopping centre offers spaces for refreshments, offices, leisure areas and a kindergarten as well as exhibition areas.

APPROACH

  • Image depicting an achieved goal
    Project Assessment
    Focus on customer needs, concept and budget.
    Read more
  • Project management
  • Economic Analysis
    Design study defines a correct and sustainable budget.
    Read more
  • Engineering
    Comprehensive and detailed engineering for every item.
    Read more
  • Detail drawings
    Shop drawings for the production of the items.
    Read more
  • Prototyping
    An early representation of an idea solution.
    Read more
  • Production and quality control
    Monitor on each phase and quality guaranteed.
    Read more
  • Purchasing
    Local artisans and famous brands for competitive prices.
    Read more
  • Logistics
    Optimize delivery times and costs so as to meet clients’ deadlines.
    Read more
  • Complete fit out and installation
    Strong direction, dedicated teams to respect the timetable.
    Read more

Key points

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Complete fit out and installation

The construction site was developed in several steps: from the assembly of the facades to the interior finishing and realization of the square. Timely planning made it possible to complete the project in due time. The collaboration with the other companies on site as well as the coordination of our resources were essential for the successful completion of the project.

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Engineering

Consistent supervision guided the working teams through the assembly of the facades using drywall technology designed specifically for this project. Close monitoring of the construction phases made it possible to keep to the time and budget set in the preliminary phase of the project, for the satisfaction of the client.

CONCEPT

The complex is characterized by two buildings joined by a bridge element and a third curved building. Etoy’s facades consists of metal elements, pilasters with industrial colours, which generate a skillful play of light and shadow, giving the building a strong sculptural dynamism that brings uniqueness to the whole complex. The large glass surfaces act as pauses and excavations within the metal material, enhancing the interior spaces. If dynamism identifies the upper floors of the architectural artefacts, the ground connection of the facade is characterized by “flat” metal surfaces alternating with the large glass surfaces. An unconventional building design, supported by innovative technologies and materials aimed at energy-efficient performance of the complex. The facades is designed as a dry system: metal substructure, sandwich panel curtain walling, aluminum-clad composite panel cladding. The envelope makes use of high-performance materials, both in the opaque surface and in the interspacing, making the building more functional and up to date with the latest sustainability concepts. The openings, defined to ensure internal lighting comfort in relation to use throughout the day, use triple glazing with adjustable internal blinds.

Project Manager: Elisabetta Boldrini

I-Life, an innovative concept that l prefer to think of as “a small town” where the customers deciding to build their own house can get all the support they need. The innovative concept had to be confirmed with an innovative design. The extent of the work and the number of participants in the project were a very valuable learning experience for me.

Project challenge

A green complex

Many challenges were involved in I-Life project. The “numbers” of this project speak for themselves: 83.800 m3 above ground. The materials and technologies used were chosen in accordance with Swiss energy classifications, so that right from the design of the facades, our team of architects and technicians had to deal with innovative solutions and high-performance materials.

ADVANTAGES: TIME AND MONEY SAVED

Months of realization

Time saving

Financial saving

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location

Etoy – Swiss

8A, Route Suisse street, Etoy, CH, 1163

customer

I-Life

The “pantheon” of real estate

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Oyala Palace Complex - Gitaly contract

OYALA PALACE COMPLEX

Oyala Palace***** Complex

Five-star city in the heart of Equatorial Guinea

Oyala Palace***** Complex

Five-star city in the heart of Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea
www.grandhoteldjibloho.com

Oyala Palace Hotel is a 5-star tourist and residential building located in Equatorial Guinea, Central Africa, in the middle of a charming natural circuit, surrounded by the Wele River. Equipped with an important conference center and a hospital, this real brand-new city is a reflection of the desire for internationalization not only of the country as well as the entire African continent, whose political project involves moving the capital from Malabo to Oyala. Our task has been to understand and interpret the Government’s input in the creation of an extraordinary new architectural presence on the African scene.

APPROACH

  • Image depicting an achieved goal
    Project Assessment
    Focus on customer needs, concept and budget.
    Read more
  • Project management
  • Economic Analysis
    Design study defines a correct and sustainable budget.
    Read more
  • Engineering
    Comprehensive and detailed engineering for every item.
    Read more
  • Detail drawings
    Shop drawings for the production of the items.
    Read more
  • Prototyping
    An early representation of an idea solution.
    Read more
  • Production and quality control
    Monitor on each phase and quality guaranteed.
    Read more
  • Purchasing
    Local artisans and famous brands for competitive prices.
    Read more
  • Logistics
    Optimize delivery times and costs so as to meet clients’ deadlines.
    Read more
  • Complete fit out and installation
    Strong direction, dedicated teams to respect the timetable.
    Read more

Key points

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Complete fit out and installation

We sent our professionals on site: project managers, site managers, technicians and specialized personnel to follow the construction phases of this multi-year project. We organised several groups of skilled workers selected from many different countries.

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Production and quality control

According to our Partner in this challenge we agreed to set up a strict monitoring procedure on each supplier before approving and sending the material to the building site. Our technicians checked every detail of each piece of furniture to avoid further problems once all materials would be on site. 

CONCEPT

The complex develops on a surface of 189 hectares and is composed of several structures: a five stars hotel, 50 luxury independent villas, a conference centre, a Club House. Everything develops in the middle of an 18 holes golf course. The Hotel, five star category, presents a plan with four wings, with a central part and develops on 10 levels. In the central part on the basement there is a discotheque accessible from the lobby through lift and a staircase; on the ground floor a lobby reception of 2700 square metres. On the four wings from the 2nd to the 5th floor, there are different typologies of bedrooms: 399 standard rooms, 46 junior suites, 4 senior suites and a royal suite. On one side of the ground floor is the wellness centre on a surface of 1650 m2; on the opposite side is the shopping area; on the sixth floor you can find an Italian restaurant with its kitchen and terrace. On another wing of the Hotel there is a three meal restaurant, on the first floor we find a lounge bar and a steakhouse restaurant. The Conference centre, directly connected to the Hotel through wing on the ground floor, is composed of several multifunction rooms, distributed on two levels. The principal structure is a semicircular dome which raises on two levels and contains the conference room with 1205 seats, while the basement for meeting rooms. In the side part (the rectangular one), there is a ballroom which may contain 840 seats on the ground floor and on the basement kitchen and facilities. The independent 50 villas are arranged on the whole area of the residential complex, close to the river landscape and surrounded by the golf course. Each villa has two floors and an outbuilding. The Club House is next to the golf course and it consists of a restaurant, a reception lobby, a caddy master room, a shop, changing rooms and on the first floor, there is a vip area with a terrace.

Design Manager: Irene Izzo

Its realization has been very hard but equally stimulating both from the stylistic and logistical point of view, being a project of enormous proportions. Its complexity has required a detailed study of every architectural element to harmoniously insert the structure in the surrounding natural landscape.

Project challenge

A city in the middle of the African forest

One of the major challenges of this project was the logistics. All merchandise and materials were sent in containers by maritime transport, so at each time we needed to pay attention to the planning and to organise at best all our network of suppliers. As previously described the building site was in the middle of the jungle we could not afford lack of material.

ADVANTAGES: TIME AND MONEY SAVED

Months of realization

Time saving

Financial saving

Recent articles from blog

In our work, a crucial element that differentiates an average project from an exceptional one is attention to details. Today I’ll talk about this topic with the help of two exceptional guests. You can not miss it because…

location

Equatorial Guinea

customer

Oyala Palace***** Complex

Five-star city in the heart of Equatorial Guinea