Kvartersbadet
(2022) AAHM01 20221Department of Architecture and Built Environment
- Abstract
- We need places in the city where we can just be, slow down and have experiences that are sensual and bodily. When communal baths were built in the cities of Sweden, it was largely for hygienic reasons, a place where people washed weekly. Now you could say that bathing is a kind of ritual, something that we do for the sake of the experience. I designed the bathhouse on an infill plot in Gamla Väster in Malmö. The bathhouse connects with an existing building and together they create a passage through the block. The passage is a changing walk along the walls of the bathhouse where the light sometimes comes from above and sometimes filters through semi-transparent windows where bathers are glimpsed as shadowy figures on the other side of the... (More)
- We need places in the city where we can just be, slow down and have experiences that are sensual and bodily. When communal baths were built in the cities of Sweden, it was largely for hygienic reasons, a place where people washed weekly. Now you could say that bathing is a kind of ritual, something that we do for the sake of the experience. I designed the bathhouse on an infill plot in Gamla Väster in Malmö. The bathhouse connects with an existing building and together they create a passage through the block. The passage is a changing walk along the walls of the bathhouse where the light sometimes comes from above and sometimes filters through semi-transparent windows where bathers are glimpsed as shadowy figures on the other side of the glass. The part of the building that faces the street also houses a beer cafe, for visitors who are going to swim, have been swimming or just want to have a beer. Looking at references that are fictional, built or natural, in this thesis I investigate bathing and gradients of materiality, light, sound, nudity, transparency, temperature, intimacy and fiction. (Less)
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- author
- Valentin, Cornelia LU
- supervisor
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- Jesper Magnusson LU
- Nina Aronsen LU
- organization
- course
- AAHM01 20221
- year
- 2022
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Kvartersbad, badhus, bastu, sauna, sento, communal bathing, bathhouse, public bathing
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9102470
- date added to LUP
- 2022-10-31 08:42:12
- date last changed
- 2022-10-31 08:42:12
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abstract = {{We need places in the city where we can just be, slow down and have experiences that are sensual and bodily. When communal baths were built in the cities of Sweden, it was largely for hygienic reasons, a place where people washed weekly. Now you could say that bathing is a kind of ritual, something that we do for the sake of the experience. I designed the bathhouse on an infill plot in Gamla Väster in Malmö. The bathhouse connects with an existing building and together they create a passage through the block. The passage is a changing walk along the walls of the bathhouse where the light sometimes comes from above and sometimes filters through semi-transparent windows where bathers are glimpsed as shadowy figures on the other side of the glass. The part of the building that faces the street also houses a beer cafe, for visitors who are going to swim, have been swimming or just want to have a beer. Looking at references that are fictional, built or natural, in this thesis I investigate bathing and gradients of materiality, light, sound, nudity, transparency, temperature, intimacy and fiction.}},
author = {{Valentin, Cornelia}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Kvartersbadet}},
year = {{2022}},
}