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Thermal Bad

Type:

Cultural [Exhibition Space]

Intervention Phase:

Schematic Design - Academic Project 

Surface : 

4000m2

Date: 

July 2017

Project Description:

The history of bathing and the bath is incredibly rich, diverse, and complex. bathing as a culture has preserved an important place through the rapid changes that took place during the last century. The city of Zürich, in particular, maintains privileged relations with its water spots. It is the European city which has the largest number of urban bathing places in soft natural water. these are devices installed at lake or river shores called badis. However, this water culture revolves around a leisure oriented bathing design, and tends to forget the spiritual dimensions of the relationship to water. This issue is developed in the thesis paper Zürich : Sacra, Ludus, Communitas.

Standing against a consumerist vision and attitude towards water pleasures, this diploma project offers to Zürich metropolitans a new water practice in the form of a public thermal bath, where the typology of the Greco-Roman bath is reinterpreted, in order to offer Zürich a real water institution.

Institution:

École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris La Villette

Professor:

Patrick Leitner, David Fagart

Team:

Individual Work