The Paris Navigating Gym floating down the Seine river in Paris, France.

(Carlo Ratti Associati)

At a Glance

An Italian architecture firm has designed a floating gym that is powered when patrons work out.The gym allows clients to work out while touring the sites of Paris as the vessel meanders along the Seine River.

An Italian design firm has created a floating gym that also functions as a boat, which offers patrons a workout and a beautiful tour of Paris along the Seine River.

Carlo Ratti Associati‘s latest project, the Paris Navigating Gym, is even more unique because it is powered by human energy. As the 65-foot vessel meanders down the river, much like the famed Bateaux Mouches ferries have done for the past 100 years, the energy created when clients work out powers the boat.

The gym, which has a capacity of 45 people at a time, is equipped with , which even allows patrons to track their output.

"The Paris Navigating Gym investigates ," Carlo Ratti, the firm's founder, told My Modern Met. "It’s fascinating to see how the energy generated by a workout at the gym can actually help to propel a boat. It provides one with a tangible experience of what lies behind the often abstract."

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Patrons getting a workout while they power the boat down the Seine.

(Carlo Ratti Associati)

Who wouldn't want to work out in this gym?

(Carlo Ratti Associati)

For the moment, the project is just an idea, but the architecture and its partners, the non-profit architecture group and the urban regeneration institute , hope their idea will become a reality in the very near future.

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