Developer Therme Group has proposed a revised design plan for its wellbeing resort in Trafford City, Manchester, UK.
The company is planning to submit the revised plan in summer this year.
Therme Manchester’s updated design plan comprises of several new elements including a waterpark, a wellbeing spa, a thermal bathing, an on-site urban farm, and botanical gardens.
Other elements in the plan include living waterslides, with a 3D-printed superstructure housing plants, and an all-season urban beach.
Besides, the plan will use sustainable technology and biophilic design elements including double-curved roofs for minimising steel usage.
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Therme Group will complete the $328m (£250m) project in partnership with Peel L&P.
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By GlobalDataPeel L&P development executive director James Whittaker said: “We are proud to be working in partnership with Therme Group to develop this exceptional wellbeing resort in Trafford City.
“Therme Manchester will lead the way in health and wellbeing and with the updated plans now including the UK’s first all-season urban beach and the world’s first living waterslides.
“We are excited to continue working with Therme Manchester to deliver this innovative health and wellbeing experience in Trafford City, the UK’s foremost retail, leisure and commercial destination.”
As per the new plan, the resort will feature a multi-sensory showers and oxygen rooms, a snow room and a visitor and education centre for hosting events on sustainability, food and nature.
The new plan has a green vertical forest car parking space at the Peel L&P’s Trafford Palazzo, which will replace the idea of building an under-venue parking.
The new multi-storey parking space will reduce the excavation efforts and simplify the construction process as well as lowering the environmental impact.
Construction will commence next year and is expected to complete within the following two years.
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Image: The new Therme Manchester design will include the world’s first ‘living’ waterslides. Credit: © Therme Group.