The long window and the open area of the bathing space are both inspired by the thermal baths in Vals, Switzerland by Peter Zumthor, where he focused on natural light into the space One of my inspiration to why i wanted the whole space of the bathing area to be open, is from the one … Continue reading Week 6: Inspiration

Images below are my own research the different types of textures that i have found. For my final materials i have decided that i also wanted to incorporate the nature inside, with a good view of the pocket forest as i didn't wanna take away the actual experience of indoor and outdoor bathing experience. I … Continue reading Week 5: Materiality

In week 4 we started skecthing out our ideas for our own bath house proposal Below shows a few sketches for my bath house floor plan ideas. For every sketches i at least want one big unisex bathing area that has a big opening to the external courtyard/ forest in doing so the customers will … Continue reading Week 4: 1:100 Bath house Modelling

The multiples lines represents rain, when raindrops are falling from the sky. While the other half of the paper shows a drawing of raindrops hitting a surface either our skin, ground etc. Above shows our group project of the dadley building site and our group procket forest Before making my bath house proposal i decided … Continue reading Week 3: Pocket Forest

In some bath houses they have this reflexology walk area, a technique whereby relfex areas in our feet are stimulated by pressure to generate a positive response in specific parts of the body, including ther nerves, organs, muscles, bones, endocrine glands (hormones) and other tissues. There are ten different stones placed at the base of … Continue reading Week 2: Bathhouses now & Planning out for my proposal

This projects asks for us to propose a bath house for the basement level/space in the Dadley Building (9 Mount Street) at AUT. It's not just a bath house this semester is all about forest bathing and so we are required to make a pocket forest for the external courtyard of the site that we … Continue reading Dadley building

Spatial Design Studio Today in class we were introduced to our new project for our semester two paper Spatial Design Studio 1. This is a semester long project with formative submission half way through. The projects requires us to come up with a bath house proposal for the current basement space of the decommissioned Dadley … Continue reading Week 1: A bath house for the Dadley Building

Above shows my A1 site plan, where i have shown where the shadows are located within the gallery and the buildings infront of it if it may have an effect to the lighting of the gallery. While the lines represent the noises throughout the building, the closer the lines the more concentrated the noises are … Continue reading Week 12: Design documentation and project narrative

Images below shows my 1:20 model of my sleeping platform without the walls in front to make it convenient to see the inside Belows shows my 1:50 model To make the stairs i used a veneer, cardboad and wire. Initially i made the stairs out of foamboard stacked together in which it did not look … Continue reading Week 10: Modelling Space