This project creates a center for civic engagement by re-imagining the historic bathhouse as a modern day typology. Heat is retained on each floor through the thermal mass of thickening walls and floor plates. Taking in water from a riverside site in downtown Boston, the bathhouse provides a spiritual, hygienic, therapeutic, and social space for the public.
Similar to the Roman bath tradition of a progression through warm rooms, hot rooms, to cold rooms, each floor represents a different temperature bath with correlating wall thicknesses to conserve heat.
The individual baths guide the overall form of the bathhouse. Bigger public spaces turn into smaller private baths with each floor. Curved walls also change in thickness and hug smaller baths to create intimate spaces.
