„Body Myths“ Encounter Urban Bathing

Body Myths is a system of conceptual and physical leaking of water, light, and bodies.

Architekturentwurf 1
Sophie Hartmann (Master Thesis)
Betreuer*in: Cristina Díaz Moreno & Efrén García Grinda

It investigates space of intimacy around bathing that reveals a diversity of cultures by exposing the bodily in space. Through the presence of the body, differences of gender and identity become more visible. To go beyond gendered categorization in space, the architecture starts to envelope and fragment with acoustic, and reflective surfaces the perception. It is an attempt to reconsider spatial hierarchies and open for a multiplicity of intimacies. It reclaims the Donaukanal as a public space to swim and opens an artificial riverbed offering the body different types to provide for degrees of intimacy. Space is experienced in continuity, supported by water that flows through it. Body Myths is a system of conceptual and physical leaking of water, light, and bodies. With an architectural language that covers, touches, and reflects, it forms multiple experiences of the body’s presence.

(c) Sophie Hartmann

(c) Sophie Hartmann