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these two pictures were my main source of inspiration for my hot pools
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these were my possible pool layouts within the building. I was experimenting with the amount of space the pools would take up compared to how much walking space was given. for the final design i decided to have as minimal amount of walking space as the focus of the bath house was to submerge ones body and go through a halotherapy session
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After the week 10 presentation, Chris and Yana gave me this artist model to look at and take inspiration from. He filled an apartment floor with dirt and kept all the interior structure bare. I'm using his same technique in my bath house and leaving all the pillars bare to show the structure of the building and just place my bath house within that existing structure. I think that leaving the pillars uncovered gives the bath house building a pre existing feeling that has been merely adjusted to the new suitable life that will be going forward
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Updated Conceptual Idea
My bathhouse will be inspired by the Pink and White Terraces that were once located at Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. The bathhouse will be focused on the detoxifying and purifying aspect of the body. The natural salt pools will be hot pools that will create a natural halo-therapy environment. The salty air will purify your lungs and respiratory system which will benefit your own health. The hot pools will help you to relax and destress. Through this halo-therapy you will detoxify your body and come out feeling like a new person. Inside the building, the hot pools will be small individual pools that are stacked on top of each other to recreate the natural look of the pink and white terraces. Because the pools will be stacked, I will dig down about 1.5-2m in depth. The small pools will lead out into the courtyard where they will all combine/merge into one big pool.
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Whilst I was doing some research, an idea sparked to create a cave like bathhouse. Continuing on with my idea with detoxifying and purifying the skin I searched up if such cave spas exist around the world. I found two places - Miskolctapolca Cave Bath in Hungary, and Grotta Giusti in Italy. These naturally crafted caves really inspired me to create something very similar in my bathhouse. Because I want to keep my bathhouse as a halotherapy place, I will create a cave like room, with a pink and white terrace swimming pool. The Pink and White Terraces are taken right from Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. Because the terraces are so salty they create a natural halotherapy experience. I will dig down into the ground to re-create the natural layers of the pink and white terraces. The temperature of the terraces in my bath house will of course we adjusted to what a human can handle.
Since the salty water is hot, the user will be able to relax and detoxify their body. Breathing in the salty air will also cleanse their respiratory system and they will go through a whole body cleanse while doing the bare minimum of just swimming in hot salty water. I will also have a cold swimming pool in the outside courtyard area so that users cool off whenever they need to.
Changing rooms and showers will be located at the very beginning of the building at the back room.
The cave will have subtle dim lighting to create some privacy and a relaxed feeling.
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Week 6 exercise - storytelling
What are the happenings?
-Detoxifying and exfoliation of the skin from within and outside
- A place for public and students to use to relax and de-stress themselves at
- Skin therapy
Who/what is participating?
- students of AUT and UoA are the primary users of this space, but not restricted to them only. Public may also use this bathhouse for their pleasure/relaxation
Verbs - relaxing, detoxifying, unwinding, restoring
Adjectives - public but private, ambiguous, filter, concealed
Nouns - water, moist, transformation, conversion
Blurb
The evaporated water particles help to relax and unwind the stressed user. The ambiguous space allows its user to feel concealed from the publics eyes, and allows the user to detoxify in peace. Transformation is the main aspect of the bathhouse. Conversion of the body from a stressed state to a refreshed and refurbished feeling is the main focus for all its users.
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My experience with water
(Week 1 exercise)
Water for me is associated with relaxing and soothing my body. When taking showers or baths I always need a few minutes where I'm not doing anything and letting the water travel around on my skin. When swimming in the pool or the ocean I also like to take a minute or two to just float on water. I've never had any terrible experiences with water where I felt afraid or captured by water. except for one time when a huge wave enclosed my friends and I; but I didn't feel scared as I somehow knew the water will eventually bring me up to the surface. I've always loved water and felt close to it.
Therefore I want to make my bathhouse experience as relaxing and soothing as possible. Carrying out my relationship with water to the people attending my bathhouse will help me create a project that is personal to me.
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Conceptual idea
My bathhouse will be inspired by the Russian Banya and Korean Jimjillbang. I want to include rooms that are made of jade stone as it has qualities of relieving stress and detoxifying the body. I also want to have a halotherapy like room - the salty air purifies the body and detofixies the body as well. My bath house will have a detoxifying and stress relieving experience. I am focusing on this because students are always quite stressed so I want to build something for them where they can de stress and relax
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Material list
Scoria rock
- I will use scoria rock for the ground in the courtyard, to continue with the already existing scoria rock wall.
Salt
- reduces stress and headaches, reduces physical illnesses/skin conditions, increases energy and purifies lung capacity
Aspen pine
- doesn't absorb water or moisture
Lavender and eucalyptus bundle
- relieves stress and relaxes the body
Tempered glass
- keeps the heat inside the building
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(27/07) today in class we drew/experimented with 4 different city perspectives/site plan. these are my drawings. with every new drawing it's a close up of one city, showing more detail
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(20/07) today in class we did an exercise where we drew with a rock and a stick to experiment with mark making. Every mark was correlated to a specific word
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Korean Jjimjilbang
Jjimjilbang bathhouses are public bathhouses that are made with varying hot tubs, showers and massage rooms. although these bathhouses aren't restricted to only those rooms. they also have heated kiln rooms (jade, salt, mineral kiln), ice rooms, exercise rooms, and sleeping quarters for travellers. the sleeping rooms are decorated with woods, minerals, crystals, stones and metals to make the rooms smell more natural and create a unified theme to the bathhouse. these elements correlate to the traditional Korean medicinal purposes. these bathhouses are also very focused on scrubbing, exfoliating and detoxifying the skin.
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Russian Banya
First Russian banya was built in 1113 for Apostle Andrew. Banya's were used by the poor and rich. Labourers used banya's to wash off and steam whilst the rich had their private banyas. Banya's were seen as a spiritual experience that was done on Sundays, that became a tradition still to this day. Banya's are made of a hot wooden steam room with 2-3 benches at varying heights - the higher you sit the hotter it is. Outside would be a cold pool to which you jump in to cool off. These banya's also have veniki (bunch of birvh twigs) that you would intentionally hit yourself with to open up your skins pores and let the steam enter your body, and to improve circulation. To the present day, this is still a tradition for Russians/Slavic.
Banya's are a wooden steam house designed for wet and dry sessions. They have three main rooms, entrance room, wash room and the steam room. In the steam room there stands a rock chamber into which you throw cold water onto the extremely hot rocks. the water evaporates when comes into contact with the rocks and produces the steam that conditions the skin.
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Bath House Origins
the first ever bathhouse to be recorded was built in Indus Valley 2500BC (modern day Pakistan and North India). in 300BC bathing was adopted by Romans, and was a very vital part of society for rich and poor. They used this time wash off the weeks worth of dirt and come to socialise communally. These bath houses had warm, hot and cold water bath procedures. The bather would start in the warm room (tepidarium), then proceed to the hot room (caldarium), and then finish with the cold room (frigidalium). The bather would then return to the warm room for a final scrub and an oil massage. Some of these bath houses also had swimming pools and a courtyard called palaestra. These two would be used for socialising and exercising.
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