A Bathhouse for Belgrade
C. Gordebeke (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
Jorge Mejia Hernandez – Mentor (TU Delft - Situated Architecture)
P.H.M. Jennen – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Design of Constrution)
A. Staničić – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Situated Architecture)
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Abstract
The project proposes a bathhouse for Teraizije Terrace in Belgrade. It is not intended as a place of repose or contemplation, but as an urban void, a receptive space that listens to its users instead of speaking to them. Kenya Hara's sensibility of 'emptiness', which he calls 'whiteness', is used as a leading figure to create such a place. Because of the site conditions and group research into the Belgrade Fortress moats, stereotomy through rammed earth walls and a thickened perimeter around the bath have played a big role. Externally, a public deck is created that creates an expansive view of the multiplicity of city life, whereas internally, the focus is singular and intimate. In the end the aim is not to draw attention to the building as much as to the effect their being in a physical environment has on them.