Can you cut a plunge into the rock on our plot?

Sometimes, depending on the stone. We look at it before promising anything.

Can we use real adire in the design?

Yes, and we would rather. We buy from working dyers and name them.

Sauna & Cold Plunge Builders in Abeokuta, Nigeria

Building among the rocks

The outcrops that give the town its name are on people's plots, and like granite anywhere they are a free structural element rather than an obstacle. We set cabins on plinths pinned into rock where it is close to the surface, and design around outcrops rather than removing them.

Where the stone is sound, a plunge basin cut into it is possible, and it is the most site-specific thing we could build anywhere in Nigeria.

Adire is not a decorative afterthought

The indigo resist-dyeing tradition here is the reference for the pattern language we use across this whole business — the chevron in our mosaics and screens comes from it. Building in Abeokuta, we would rather use the real thing: a dyed panel framed in a rest area, or a mosaic laid to a pattern taken from a local workshop.

We buy from working dyers rather than reproducing the pattern in a factory, and we say who made it.

Inland specification and Lagos delivery

Away from the coast the corrosion problem is modest: fixings and enclosures step down a grade and the service interval lengthens. Everything is made in Ikeja and delivered in a consolidated load, with service visits scheduled in blocks.