BIND BY WATER

building a community amongst solo dwellers through water infrastructure

Master thesis (2022)

Authors

K.K.K. Wong Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

O. Klijn Public Building and Housing Design (supervisor 1)
A.M. Kockelkorn Public Building and Housing Design (supervisor 1)
F. Adema Building Product Innovation - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment
Copyright: © 2022 Kelly Wong
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Published Date

11-11-2022

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

The design of BIND BY WATER promotes a new way of living in which we rethink the integration of living and bathing into one building. By reimagining the bath as a shared space, the unique timbre of the project offers a space of synthesis, vulnerability, and reconciliation, where the armor of everyday life is abandoned together with one’s clothes.

The project offers a wide variety of dwelling typologies for the heterogeneous group of solo dwellers (the project's target group). With the typologies containing no, limited, or an "extravagant" bathroom. The communal bathing facility on the ground floor provides a stimulating environment for spontaneous and improvisational communal exchange. Fostering community building amongst the ever-growing group of solo dwellers in which communal space becomes an imperative part of their daily routine.