A BATHING HOUSE | THESIS PROJECT

Through the development of a bathing house in the existing building, Langelinieskuret, the aim of the project is to create awareness around water as a valuable resource by facilitating it as a healing element of body and mind. To accentuate the idea of the bathhouse as a community relating to corporality and bodily health this thesis intends to form an inclusive space for every’body’ by focusing on physically disabled users and transgendered people. By questioning and reevaluating the typical bathhouse typology in order to embrace diversity and create an inclusive space, the project explores accessibility and challenges the traditional gender segregation of public baths.

Using the ideas from a research paper called ”Architectural Vocabularies: exploring the analogous relationship between light and water” which outlines that we often describe conditions of light with a language analogous to one you would use to describe the behavior of water, the project investigates how this can be used in relation to the design of spatial elements in order to create an immersive sensory experience when visiting the bathing house.

Plan and longitudinal section 1:150

Changing and bathing area