Sport · Szentendre · 2026

From the sauna to the court

Interior design for the Onyx Padel club in Szentendre, across 1,400 m²: one competition court and four more, a café, a gallery, changing rooms — and a sauna that looks out over the courts.

The brief

Five padel courts in one hall, one of them a competition court. Around them goes everything that makes a club a club: reception, café, changing rooms, wellness, and room for people who are not playing — only waiting or watching.

In a padel club, guests spend more of their time off the court than on it — before the game and after. The question was how to tie that time to the view of the courts.

The response

The club's defining feature is the sauna. It sits on the gallery level above the long wall of the competition court, with one large, undivided glass wall facing the courts. Whoever sits inside watches the match. From outside, the glass carries a mirror film: a player looking up sees only the hall reflected back. Wellness is not a hidden corner of the building but the best view in the hall.

The client asked for a warm, family-like club. So living-room furniture groups sit between the courts — sofas, armchairs, lamps and plants — where a waiting parent, a spectator and a player staying on after the match all feel at home.

Two graphic series of our own run along the walls. History of Padel tells the story of the sport; Anatomy of Padel takes the court and the equipment apart — so waiting comes with something to read.

At the centre of the ground floor stands a round bar with a terrazzo top and ribbed terracotta cladding. Above it, the curved edge of the gallery slab. Together they make the centre of the hall. From the bar stools there is a court in both directions.

A steel spiral stair with timber treads and light concealed beneath each tread links the two levels. The gallery holds café tables and treadmills behind a railing above the courts — the game can be followed from above.

The materials counter the hardness of sport: terrazzo floors, ribbed tiles, timber benches and warm concealed light in the changing rooms, where the men's and women's sides each have their own colour code; a blue-grey wall and oval, halo-lit mirrors in the washroom; woven rattan pendants and soft sofas along the courts.

Facts

Location: Szentendre, Hungary
Year: 2026
Type: Padel club, interior design
Floor area: 1,400 m²
Courts: 5 — one competition court and four courts
Feature: Sauna on the gallery, glazed towards the courts
Hall architecture: Kocsisok Építész Stúdió Kft.
Status: Under construction

Courts and social spaces

Four players on court; blue panels on the padel story high on the hall walls; a glass wall to the trees behind — The courts on the garden side of the hall: a glass wall with trees beyond.

Long walkway between the courts with blue sofas, rattan pendants and plants, the gallery at the far end — The strip between the courts: sofas, rattan pendants, the feel of a living room.

Round bar with ribbed terracotta cladding and terrazzo top, the curved gallery edge above, courts behind — The round bar under the gallery: a court in both directions from the stools.

Steel spiral stair with timber treads rising through a round opening in the slab to the gallery, courts behind — Its sculptural form makes the spiral stair a focal point.

The gallery: café tables with orange chairs, treadmills, a railing above the courts — Café and treadmills on the gallery, the court visible over the railing.

Two guests on a sofa beside the court mesh, rattan pendants above — A rest area beside the court, play on the far side of the mesh.

Four guests in woven armchairs in a gallery alcove, terrazzo dado, ribbed timber band, slatted glass wall behind — A seating alcove on the gallery, with a terrazzo dado.

Wellness, changing rooms and washrooms

Two guests on the sauna benches with the stove between them, behind them a glass wall onto the blue padel courts and players — From the sauna: mirror on the outside, the whole hall on the inside.

The competition court looking towards the gallery: above, the mirrored glass wall of the sauna; below, the changing-room entrances; the spiral stair on the left and the Anatomy of a Padel Racket panel on the right — From the competition court: the sauna glass is a mirror from outside.

Changing-room corridor with green walls, terrazzo floor, a ribbed tile band, timber benches, lockers and reeded-glass shower cubicles — Changing-room corridor in the green colour code: terrazzo, decorative tile band, lockers.

Women's changing room: coloured lockers, timber bench, terrazzo counter with concealed light under the mirrors — Changing room: terrazzo, decorative tile band, coloured lockers.

Changing room with mirror bays, terrazzo counters and a timber bench in warm concealed light — Women's changing room.

Washroom with blue-grey walls, two column basins and oval halo-lit mirrors — The washroom: blue-grey wall, oval mirrors.

Visualisation: Ren Design · post-production includes AI-based upscaling and retouching · project under construction

Ren Design is a Budapest interior design studio that has worked across Europe, the Gulf, South America and Asia. On this project it designed the interiors of the Onyx Padel club.