The Lost Bathhouse of Maastricht

Master thesis (2018)

Authors

R.E. Ştefănescu Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

E.P.N. Schreurs (mentor)
J.D. Fokkinga (graduation committee member)
S. Pietsch (mentor)
S. Nijhuis (coach)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment, Architecture and the Built Environment
Copyright: © 2018 Ecaterina Ştefănescu
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Published Date

28-06-2018

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

Imagining the ruins of a Roman bathhouse on a forgotten river site in Maastricht, the project reflects on the idea of authenticity and manipulation of history in architecture. The building is imagined as a ruin and reflects on the role of ruins in architecture and how the roman ritual of bathing can be interpreted in contemporary times. The new bathhouse forges a dialogue between the new and the fake-old, and the baths and the Jeker river, through a system of layering that aims to mitigate the scale and solidity of the ruin with the tactile, intimate spaces for bathing. The festive is manifested in the programme of pleasure and in the reinterpretation and fantastical recreation of the ancient roman past of Maastricht.