BIND BY WATER

building a community amongst solo dwellers through water infrastructure

Master Thesis (2022)
Author(s)

K.K.K. Wong (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)

Contributor(s)

O Klijn – Mentor (TU Delft - Public Building and Housing Design)

Anne Kockelkorn – Mentor (TU Delft - Public Building and Housing Design)

F. Adema – Mentor (TU Delft - Building Product Innovation)

Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment
Copyright
© 2022 Kelly Wong
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Publication Year
2022
Language
English
Copyright
© 2022 Kelly Wong
Coordinates
51.92475872423503, 4.4612601379089085
Graduation Date
11-11-2022
Awarding Institution
Delft University of Technology
Project
Advanced Housing Studio
Programme
Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Advanced Housing Design
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment
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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.

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