Netil360 Rooftop - Hackney

When East London’s most iconic and long standing rooftop bar decided they wanted to offer weary and tired locals their first taste of an authentic Finish sauna experience, we couldn’t help but throw ourselves into this mammoth task.

The brief was to design and build four bespoke sauna cabins, where each one could be taken apart and put back together numerous times, to enable manual handling up five flights of stairs, onto the rooftop of a 1960s building.

With strict electricity constraints, our electrical engineer designed a power share relay box for the sauna heaters. Each pair of saunas shared a single 3 phase electricity supply in unison, only drawing power and heating as required. In addition, each sauna unit was over insulated alongside an adjoining ‘anti’ room, thus allowing for an additional thermal break from the outside air temperatures.

When setting out in any of our projects we put just as much focus on the environment and location as the build itself, and always ensure we design a full experience that best sits within these elements. Being inside a sauna is only half the experience. For the rooftop experience, that sits high above the London streets below, we built a changing room, toilet, office, mini bar, private fire pit seating area, hot and cold rain fall showers and a dedicated space to completely clear your head, looking out at nothing but the skyline.

Internally finished to the highest standard, to give even OCD sufferers (like Ben) a welcome relief, with clean lines and maximum views, all our saunas are built to ease the mind on the inside and be totally ‘unassuming’ on the outside.