bath / room

Princeton School of Architecture / Graduate Architecture Studio 501 / Fall 2021 / Mentor: Anda French

A room on a roof, an addition that contributes to the deconstruction of its surroundings. Mining a wet crevice in the existing building for information, and constructing a gender-inclusive collective bathing house that connects the site back to its historic usage, as a public amenity for marginalized people, particularly the Black community of Princeton, New Jersey. A bifurcated structure created to confuse the binary through its own formal language, bath/house enhances connectivity between its halves with a fogged, semi-transparent water channel system that not only carries water from the baths, but also channels rain flow from the environment. Dripping and steaming the existing structure on which it sits, bath/house directly negates the luxury clothing store which currently inhabits the site, and instead offers a steamy respite open to all the city’s inhabitants.