Drawing by Zheng Jingyuan.
BEYOND THE BATH BATH-MUSEUM COMPLEX DESIGN Term
2019.7-2019.8
Type
Academic Project (Collaboration Work)
Co-worker
Lu Jiayong/Shi Jia/Zheng Jingyuan/Zhao Xiayu/Song Lu
Role
Design/3D Molding/Drawing Images
Tutor
Wang Kai (kai@justopenarch.com)
Since the time immemorial, saunas or bathhouses have played a community role.Space dissolves in steam. Distances collapse, the borders of bodies are rubbed out, and disjecta membra loom through the fog. As for the Turkish bath, a recurrent motif in Western art, inherited Roma bath culture but embraced Islamic culture as well. Nowadays, the baths have been transformed from a place of political sociability into a place of entertainment, the design is focused on the spatial shaping and trying to evoke the memory of turkish historical culture. 16
