The Canal-side Washhouse

Award for Design, Award for Building technology

The washhouse project is an investigation into the human relationship with water and into atmospheres of immersion. It is an attempt to recombine typologies, reliant on water, such as the bath house, the public bathroom, and the laundrette. This is done in order to overcome the ecological and economical shortcomings of traditional laundrettes and domestic showers, while also drawing these activities out of the domestic sphere, and into a communal space.

Therefore, my design has become a celebration of water and  the process that stem from it, such as decomposition and cleansing. 

The washhouse attempts to work in harmony with the site and local conditions to re-think our relationship with water and energy. This is achieved through a series of passive strategies that utilise the thermal and sensory qualities of the decomposing leaves on site. 

Making Architecture

2020-2021

This project is an investigation and celebration of the way in which objects and spaces register human interaction. Most importantly, human interventions and interactions that occur during the process of making.  The main outcome of this project was a artefact communicating the effect that use of the bathroom has on cycles of wet and dry and to record the ephemeral human traces on bathroom surfaces. Using the process of drought to reveal marks and moments from the life of bathroom components.