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A place to Bathe...

Pulsating Ambiance

Pulsating - to throb or move rhythmically
Ambiance - a feeling or mood associated with a particular place, person, or thing (atmosphere)

When starting this project we researched ancient baths and rituals. I found myself straying away from choosing a particular culture that I found interesting, instead forcing myself to think more about the individual and the community they would be creating within my bath. I choose to design a space with particular client characteristics in mind. Individuals that have undergone either a tragic event, illnesses, or something else that temporarily altered their body causing them to be restricted to the constraints of a wheelchair. In order for my space to help these individual overcome their constraints, hydrotherapy has been introduced.

Hydrotherapy: the therapeutic use of water; Hydrotherapy is a known form of natural pain relief. Hydrotherapy uses water to treat the body by stimulating and redirecting the flow of blood and carrying waste products away from the cells. The focus of hydrotherapy is to rid the body of toxins that may be causing joint pain and inflammation. This is done through hot and cold stimuli

Perspective View 1:


To enter my space you will descend down a ramp that wraps around the bath's exterior walls, here you will get your fist glimpses of the bath. An open space allows for the individuals to have an outdoor experience while still experiencing a phyological closed bath in private. Four individual seating areas are located on the four corners of the space. East seat in inset to allow the individuals to soak while experiencing the pulsating jets.

Perspective View 2:


Located in the center of my structure is a fountain that is tiered to creating a waterfall effect. Here is where I derived my idea of pulsating. Also to support the rhythmic pulses that escape from the fountain I have echoed the pattern onto my floor in my tile work.

Plan View:
North Wall Elevation:
South Wall Elevation (East and West are identical)




Sketch Model:

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A Place to Dine...

Cultural bathing experience

Ancient Egyptian Bathing Rituals...

For soap Egyptians used swabu (means to clean), a paste containing ash or clay, which was often scented, and could be worked into a lather. This soap was talked about in "The Ebers Medical Papyrus", dating from about 1500 BCE, describes mixing animal and vegetable oils with alkaline salts. The soap-like material was used for treating skin diseases, as well as for washing

Walking barefoot the feet got dusty, which, as the floors of their houses were no different from the ground outside. The richer, or upper class Egyptians had wooden or clay footbaths for washing their feet, usually there were two basins as only one foot could fit in each basin
At Tebtunis public bathhouses have been excavated, the oldest dating to the third century BCE. They had showers, stone basins and a stove to heat the bath water.^[3]
While a few bathrooms and tubs have been discovered most Egyptians seemed fine with cleansing through aspersion or by a dip in a canal or the river. They had wash basins and probably filled them with a natron and salt solution from jugs with spouts and used sand as a scouring agent. They washed after rising and both before and after the main meals, but one may assume that their ablutions were mostly perfunctory. As mouth wash they used another solution called bed (bd: natron).
If washing did not help to get rid of body odor sometime the advice of a physician was sought after who had a number of recipes at his disposal:

http://nefertiti.iwebland.com/timelines/topics/cosmetics.htm

Urban Pathways

Scene of Discourse

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