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To Conclude
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To Conclude
By critically analysing the experience of a journey taken through a pool environment, conducted through phenomenology, this research aimed to identify how pool environments create an experience that tranquillises the body with a lasting memory. It provides a method of exploring architectural design and the interactions and engagement this has with the senses – how this contributes to the enhancement of the senses and how materials and spaces of the architecture of pool environments help to create an experience.
In the development of the research, it became apparent that throughout the literature about pool environments (thermal baths, mineral pools, Roman baths and natural pools), the enhancement of the senses is unique to each experience and three key themes emerged:
Temperature Light Natural Elements
The emergent elements highlighted the significant relationship that the body and skin had with water as well as architectural design.
