Would you sauna…in a shell?- See images

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Visitors enter through a cave-like entrance while at the top of the sauna an eyelet allows natural light to illuminate the interior.

A spiral wood-covered sauna shaped like a shell has been completed by Kengo Kuma & Associates at the SANA MANE luxury camp in Naoshima, Japan.

Visitors enter through a cave-like entrance while at the top of the sauna an eyelet allows natural light to illuminate the interior.

“Designs that imitate living things are called biomimicry, and this time I was inspired by the unevenness of shells,” noted architect Taichi Kuma, son of the famous Kengo Kuma.

In an Instagram post, Taichi Kuma described the interior of the “SAZAE” sauna as “a cave-like space cut off from the outside world by a thick wall…

The only light that pours in comes from the eye. To give the feeling of light, I created innumerable folds and undulations with glued sheets of plywood”

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