To comprehend the definition of spa, the construction of spa spaces and the history behind these spaces and experiences literature study is done.

Thesis consist of five main chapters: In first chapter the purpose of thesis, literature review and hypothesis are stressed. In this thesis study, well-being and its spatial experience and spa design development and contemporary spa spaces, further to that, the emerging role of Turkish Hamam spatiality and its atmospherically penetration in contemporary spa design is also examined and discussed. Thus, personal and public bathing spaces emerged in relation to these routines and rhetoric. While human baths throughout the history, the forms of bathing shaped according to different reigns, beliefs and politics. Bathing can take place where water exist as bathtub, shower or even river, sea, ocean, lake. People are always attracted to water and this interest originates from different aspects like need for bathing, religious and spiritual rituals and the belief to curative powers of water. The relation between human beings and water starts in the mother womb and continues in many forms. As the word spa literally refers to the abbreviation of sanus (salus/ sanitas) per aquam that means health coming from water in Latin. In this content, spa spaces compel attention.

As a result of these, people need to have treatments and experiences to relax and stay strong. Today, wellbeing and being healthy are the ultimate goals that are difficult to endure due to increasing stress level in modern world, working environment with high- intensity and expectations from civilized human. World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as “state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” on the one hand on the other hand, Global Wellness Institution (GWI, 2017) stresses wellness as intellectual, religious and medical movements and modern concept with ancient roots beginning with the Ayurveda treatments followed by Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ancient Greek doctrines, Roman Medicine and movements in United States and Europe in 19th century. Wellbeing as a notion gains importance day by day hand in hand with the status of healthiness.

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