Spa Design And Architecture

Summary SPA Design and Architecture teaches you the design and development skills you need to create SPAs. Includes an overview of MV* frameworks, unit testing, routing, layout management, data access, pub/sub, and client-side task automation. This book is full of easy-to-follow examples you can apply to the library or framework of your choice. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology The next step in the development of web-based software, single-page web applications deliver the sleekness and fluidity of a native desktop application in a browser. If you're ready to make the leap from traditional web applications to SPAs, but don't know where to begin, this book will get you going. About the Book SPA Design and Architecture teaches you the design and development skills you need to create SPAs. You'll start with an introduction to the SPA model and see how it builds on the standard approach using linked pages. The author guides you through the practical issues of building an SPA, including an overview of MV* frameworks, unit testing, routing, layout management, data access, pub/sub, and client-side task automation. This book is full of easy-to-follow examples you can apply to the library or framework of your choice. What's Inside Working with modular JavaScript Understanding MV* frameworks Layout management Client-side task automation Testing SPAs About the Reader This book assumes you are a web developer and know JavaScript basics. About the Author Emmit Scott is a senior software engineer and architect with experience building large-scale, web-based applications. Table of Contents PART 1 THE BASICS What is a single-page application? The role of MV* frameworks Modular JavaScript PART 2 CORE CONCEPTS Navigating the single page View composition and layout Inter-module interaction Communicating with the server Unit testing Client-side task automation APPENDIXES Employee directory example walk-through Review of the XMLHttpRequest API Chapter 7 server-side setup and summary Installing Node.js and Gulp.js

Illustrates some of the worlds most luxurious spa spaces.

Spa and wellness locations are place for relaxation and enjoyment with all senses. Individual styles reaching from traditional forms inspired by different kinds of bath cultures to impressive luxury wellness temples show the variety of spa interiors. Relax! Best of Interior Design will feature 40 outstanding international projects on 400 pages by well-known architects as well as by young designers. The publication is dedicated to the creativity of recent recreation and wellness projects from around the globe.

Today, fitness studios and modern spas are more than merely functional sports installations and health centers. In fact, they are painstakingly conceived and designed to delight their visitors with perfected trainling programs, the latest in health and beauty treatments, and stunning interiors. Spa & Health Club Design gathers 21 of these wellness retreats whose original designs and innovative architecture generate the perfect environment for physical exercise and relaxation. Book jacket.

A celebration of communal bathing—swimming pools, saunas, beaches, ritual baths, sweat lodges, and more—viewed through the lens of architecture and landscape. We enter the public pool, the sauna, or the beach with a heightened awareness of our bodies and the bodies of others. The phenomenology of bathing opens all of our senses toward the physical world entwined with the social, while the history of bathing is one of shared space, in both natural and built environments. In The Architecture of Bathing, Christie Pearson offers a unique examination of communal bathing and its history from the perspective of architecture and landscape. Engagingly written and richly illustrated, with more than 260 illustrations, many in color, The Architecture of Bathing offers a celebration of spaces in which public and private, sacred and profane, ritual and habitual, pure and impure, nature and culture commingle. Pearson takes a wide-ranging view of her subject, drawing on architecture, art, and literary works. Each chapter is structured around an architectural typology and explores an accompanying theme—for example, tub, sensuality; river, flow; waterfall, rejuvenation; and banya, immersion. Offering examples, introducing relevant theory, and recounting personal experiences, Pearson effortlessly combines a practitioner's zest with astonishing erudition. As she examines these forms, we see that they are inextricable from landscapes, bodily practices, and cultural production. Looking more closely, we experience architecture itself as an immersive material and social space, embedded inthe interdependent environmental and cultural fabric of our world.

Spa: The Sensuous Experience provides a timely exploration of 40 of the very best spas created over the years, from more recent examples to traditional destinations that have become classic icons in the spa world.

The book provides an introduction to commercial wellness spaces in France, such as spas, beauty salons, and hairdressing salons. These spaces are closely related to our life, as we have begun to pay more attention to body and health. Pleasant spaces help us relax, and this is particularly important for more efficient body building. They are not just spaces for beauty; we see a certain philosophy behind these spaces, and interior design plays a key role in achieving the philosophy. The fifty projects in this book will fully demonstrate the current trends of wellness space design in France.