The Arché Water Path Luxury Experience, designed in collaboration between Studio Apostoli and the creative team at Balich Wonder Studio, marks a new frontier in wellness design. Described as a Grand Tour of Wellness, the project offers an immersive experience that fully engages the spiritual, emotional, and sensory dimensions of the guest. This solution blends wellness with exclusive entertainment and is designed to deliver long-term benefits.
Arché is conceived as a “project that becomes a product”, distinguished by its modularity and versatility. It is a wellness area that can be freely configured to meet the needs of the facility and its guests, built on a grid system of three distinct modules that are independent, customisable, and freely combinable.
The core design principle and overarching theme is water, explored in all its possible forms, expressions, and manifestations. Water becomes the common thread that unites the different settings and the eight proposed zones, shaping their organic design. The name Arché derives from water representing the primordial origin of wellbeing and serving as a bridge to our deeper emotions.
The partnership saw Balich Wonder Studio devise the creative concept, while Studio Apostoli developed the layout, selecting the most contemporary finishes, treatments, and technologies. The result is a highly sensory experience intended to stimulate all five senses. This is achieved through the extensive use of tactile textures, metallic and mirrored surfaces, vegetation and natural elements, alongside aromatherapy, immersive soundscapes, digital content, engaging lighting, and dramatic effects.
The wellness journey begins with Threshold: a suspended walkway over water, interspersed with cascades, symbolising the transition. This leads to the Purification Tunnel—a mist-filled space designed to help guests disconnect from the outside world and prepare for the journey. Guests then enter the Aquatic Maze: a circular labyrinth that marks their first immersive encounter with water. Here, visitors can enjoy freestyle swimming, a spacious hot tub encircling a central fire pit, water features, and a beach of dark volcanic sand illuminated by fibre optic lighting.
An underwater passage, known as Navel, leads to a cave. From there, guests proceed to Latitudes: concentric tunnels that replicate journeys through contrasting regions of the planet—jungle, desert, Arctic, and volcanic landscapes—recreated with multi-sensory sound, visual, tactile, and olfactory effects.
Among the decompression areas is Greenhouse, a tropical decompression garden that also hosts the first food & beverage space. This leads into Biosphere—a square-layout space whose walls and ceiling are LED screens continuously displaying natural phenomena in a modern reinterpretation of the Romantic sublime. For meditation, Cocoon is provided, a sensory-deprivation dome where guests can float in salt-infused water. The journey continues with Rain Renewal (a bamboo forest with private treatment areas) and concludes with Eden, a lush garden complemented by a food & beverage offering.
In Arché Water Path Luxury Experience the entertainment component is a central element, responding to the growing leisure trend in getaways and structured wellness journeys; on the other side, mind-body wellbeing is elevated through encounters with hypnotic, immersive landscapes crafted from water, light, and materials. Through this diverse range of experiences, water – in all its forms and states – becomes a medium for play, contemplation, and regeneration.
