Workshop 6 - Submission 3

In the submission 3, we need to design a Roman bath houses translating "the issues, constraints and opportunities" from the typical Roman Bath Design.

My idea is to keep the areas which were mentioned in the Roman Bath House and combining with my concept "back to the nature" to create a new design of bath house aims to provide high class of comfort to the customers.

The following are my vignettes:

The bath house is located in an environment surrounds by plants and botanies. From this vignette, you can see a lot of trees and grass near the house. The house design is similar to the Water Cube but the actual design of the house is a rectangular shape with two bits going out like "[", you will see the back of the building in following vignettes. The use of glass wall can let people to enjoy the sunshine as well as the rain emphasising the theme that they're moving back to the nature.

There is an autometic door for access, and you can see the receptionlist standing at the front and smiling, the person standing on the left is responsible for valuables storage. The door located on the right hand side will give access to the changing room as well as the showering. I placed two Roman columns inside just to stress the Roman bath house and the plants are placed at the reception to make you feel closer to the nature.

After entering the door, you will see the above. The lockers and benches on the right are for changing clothes and clothes storage. The mirror section are for hair drying and beautiful design.

Then I turn left and I will see the view on top: the towers are placed on the wooden deck, the toilet and the shower room at the back, the hand washing area and the hair drying area on the right.

Then I turn into the path between hand washing section and hair drying section.

 I turned around the corner and I will see a steam room with glass walls (so that you can see if any people faint inside) and a sauna room with wooden walls.

 Turn around the corner again, then I can see a whole lot of shower rooms locating on both sides of the path.

 I then  go out from the door and I can see a open-air resting place.

 I enter the door which is closer to me and there is an in-door resting room with sofa and a waiter serving food and drink.

 I then turn right and go to the other side.

 I leave from the door and I will see a hot water bath surrounding by grass and trees. I located the bath outside so that people can breath the fresh air from the botany and to emphasise the concept of "back to nature"

The irregular one is for warm water bath and the circular bath is under the glass supportted by four Roman columns.

Reflection:
I thought my design is good, but because I spent too much time on designing the actual building and drawing drafts, it made my actual drawing a bit rough, so I got the lowest mark amoung the three submission. I'm still really happy with my design though.