Future Simple Studio Trades the Spa Playbook for Roman Civic Logic
Design Milk | 23.04.2026 20:00RECESS occupies a peculiar gap in Montreal’s urban fabric. The city has no shortage of places to sweat, and cold plunges have become a wellness cliché—but it lacked a space where thermal bathing doubles as social infrastructure. Future Simple Studio’s 4,500-square-foot project in Griffintown attempts to fill that void, positioning itself as Montréal’s first social hot–cold circuit experience. Founded by Adam Simms and Marilyne Gagné, RECESS is conceived less as a spa and more as a contemporary ritual—an “ode to stillness” that encourages people to pause, reset, and reconnect with themselves and others.
