Subject: Architectural and Spatial Grammar Studio
Year / Semester: Second / First
Involvement: Individual Project
Year / Semester: Second / First
Involvement: Individual Project
The Byford Bathhouse is a healing and recovery centre designed to focus on the recovery of the mind. The Byford Bath house is located in the rural suburb of Byford, 50 minutes from the Perth CBD. The site is isolated and vast, with only one entrance, allowing the bathhouse to be well hidden from surrounding intruders and the form is embedded on the valley side, offering the users a stronger filter of the outside world.
Healing and recovery is often centred around physical impairments, dismissing mental health as a secondary ailment. The Byford Bathhouse offers an escape from any pressures and issues of circumstance, allowing the patron to seclude themselves from society and retreat into relaxation and comfort.
Assigned with the specific typology of “healing and recovery”, the Bathhouse seeks to redefine the typical expectations of a health centre by using sensory perception, aquatic interaction and spatial influence to indulge the mind and encourage the imagination.
The five senses play a pivotal role in the perception of an environment and as a result, to design a healing and recovery experience, an architect must define the divergent interactions with each sense.
“When the architectural experience becomes multi-sensory,
all the senses are equally experiencing the quality of the space, which will
strengthen the existential experience.” Panagiotis Hadjiphilippou.
all the senses are equally experiencing the quality of the space, which will
strengthen the existential experience.” Panagiotis Hadjiphilippou.
The Byford Bathhouse uses sensory deprivation and reintroduction to amplify the users appreciation of the healing techniques that water can provide.
Initial Concept Section
