Seeing as this project is asking us to incorporate forest bathing into our design proposal, I have decided to try and capture this idea and run with it. We have been told that the outdoor space that has been allocated to our pocket forest is not to include and form of outdoor swimming pool. This is to ensure the permeability of the land meaning that water and filter through. So how do you connect one to nature from within?
I initially thought that I would include large windows looking out into the forest, this would allow bath goes to have a nice view and feel some what connected to nature. However I thought that this was much to simple and obvious, and it wasn’t exactly pushing my design ability.
I will still incorporate windows into my design, but how do I make people feel like they swimming and bathing within and among the forest, somehow I need to capture the atmosphere and replicate it inside. I came up with a canopy, trees have canopies, when you look up they create some sort of green barrier to the sky and the elements that come with it. So why not create some sort of canopy within the basement space that replicates and emulates the feeling of being underneath trees?
A space of this nature would be very organic in form with many curves and continuous lines. It would be interesting to see if you could somehow disguise the existing pillars to fully transform the space. I plan on using rhino to further explore this idea and I will attempt to make some study models to see if ti would be feasible or not.
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