- Location: Ampenan Historic Sports Hall, Mataram, Lombok
Where the weathered, mid-century maritime warehouses of Lombok’s old port town meet the explosive energy of modern athletic subculture, a massive architectural transformation has taken place. This expansive lifestyle citadel occupies a revitalized colonial-era shipping depot, trading industrial storage for high-performance sports and precision recovery. Built with a heavy industrial-chic aesthetic—featuring soaring iron roof trusses, exposed original red masonry, and sandblasted concrete walls—the space brings a progressive athletic rhythm to Ampenan’s historic grid. These five continuous spatial loops guide you from a high-velocity badminton tournament through a core-conditioning pilates lab, finishing at a unique espresso bar that bridges modern extraction with vintage coastal elements.
1. The Industrial Portside Badminton Arena
The athletic routine fires up inside the building’s main cavernous hall—a raw, high-ceilinged athletic arena hosting five premium Indoor Badminton courts. The playing surfaces are engineered with multi-layered, shock-absorbing emerald-green synthetic mats laid over a sprung timber subfloor, delivering maximum joint protection and optimal traction for lightning-fast footwork. Under the glare-free, downward-focused LED sports lighting arrays, you engage in high-octane singles or doubles matches. The rapid sound of string snaps, explosive jump smashes, and high-velocity clears echoing against the historic iron trusses creates an intense, unfiltered competitive drive that demands absolute, split-second cognitive focus.
2. The Structural Pilates Reformer Lab
Stepping off the high-speed badminton courts, you pass through a structural steel portal into the adjoining Pilates Reformer Lab. This minimalist, soundproofed studio features clean micro-cement floors and houses five custom-finished, high-resistance mechanical reformers. Under the guidance of movement biomechanists, you transition from explosive cardio movements into slow, calculated eccentric core conditioning and deep rotational alignment. The heavy-duty steel spring configurations are calibrated specifically to counter the repetitive asymmetric stress of racket sports, lengthening your spine, balancing your shoulders, and stabilizing your deep core stabilizers.
3. The Salt-Air Thermal Decompression Void
Leaving the physical intensity of the training labs, you descend into a low-lit, climate-controlled recovery bunker crafted from thick, sandblasted grey concrete. The core of this space features a hyper-filtered, near-freezing Ice-Plunge tank maintained at a strict 8°C, adjacent to a dry-heat infrared sauna lined with Himalayan salt bricks. Submerging your lower body into the ice plunge instantly constricts blood vessels, flushing metabolic waste out of your fatigued legs and crushing joint inflammation. Moving into the salt-sauna allows your nervous system to fully cool down while the mineral-infused air opens your lungs, leaving your body feeling entirely weightless.
4. The Charcoal-Hearth Claypot Coffee Hub
Completely physically restored, you emerge into the building’s architectural social anchor: a progressive espresso laboratory dominated by a long bar chiseled from a single block of dark volcanic terrazzo. This coffee hub features a unique, hybrid design where high-end, under-counter modular espresso heads sit adjacent to a traditional, low-heat clay charcoal hearth. Here, you order a signature Claypot Espresso Fusion. You watch the barista extract a precision shot of single-origin Rinjani Arabika, then pour it over a slow-simmered, spice-infused coconut milk base kept hot in a traditional earthenware vessel over the charcoal embers. The resulting beverage is thick, smoky, and intensely complex.
5. The Seaside Esplanade Decompression
The final lifestyle stage takes place on the building’s open-air rear terrace, which opens directly onto the historic Ampenan seaside promenade. Furnished with low-slung, minimalist iron-frame canvas daybeds, the deck is completely exposed to the cooling sea breezes blowing off the Lombok Strait. Relaxing on the platform, sipping your warm, smoky espresso alongside a slice of house-baked charcoal sourdough bread, you can look out past the old Dutch pier ruins. Watching the golden twilight paint the ancient brick facades while the ocean tide laps against the seawall brings a profoundly peaceful, grounding close to your high-performance athletic day.
