Adaptive Reuse: Spiritual Bathing Center
This is an adaptive reuse project of Cable Car Cinema into a spiritual bathing center, aiming for stress release for the surrounding college and office community. The main design concepts are a variation of visibility and repetitive procession.
Original Plan & Section of Cable Car Cinema
New Plan & Section of Bathing Center
Variation of visibility to juxtapose openness & enclosure
- I aim to create a sense of secrecy & privacy, but at the same time openness for spiritual relief and relaxation. Thus, I chose to create underground spaces.
- Play with visibility through the perforation of facade and height differences of floorings
Slow down Time through the repetitive procession.
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Formally, I utilized the concaving shape of the space to give a strong sense of direction & procession: pools corridor
- Slow down the process of Descending --> slowly reaching one’s inner spirit and calmness.
- Repetitive procession in visual(repeated pools), aural(decreasing noise as descending), and tactile(alternating temperatures of different space) experience.
Circulation & Mapping of Aural Experience 
Desembled Model
