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VARIATIONS looks at the assignment as an opportunity to design a process that defines objects as belonging to classes and families. According to variation principles, every stage of the design becomes a physical entity that learns from predecessors and informs new iterations. The design is then able to evolve and ultimately behave as part of a redefined family(the totality of projects). The Public Bath-Variations is focused on describing influences on site that could allow for the concept: Clean Water Floats Between Piers to materialize in an architectural object. For this, a roaming area is defined and materialized into both under-water and above-water spaces that cluster around pedestrian passage-ways, providing new links across the site as well as creating spaces to enjoy and discover water as the most important factor in the RDM environment. The Public Baths help establish the area as, not only, a research, working and living environment but as a new social hub in Rotterdam. The Public Baths address a broad spectrum of users, not only serving users/inhabitants of the cultural, residential, commercial communities newly established on site but actually providing other projects with an influx of people coming to RDM mainly because of the Baths. Public Bath-Variations takes advantage of the research and building facilities available inside RDM Dock in terms of ship and submarine building technologies. The client of the Public Bath is described as the result of a public-private partnership between the Public Authority for Sport and Leisure in Rotterdam and RDM Innovation Dock(comprising entities with know-how in ship-building and underwater construction&research). VARIATIONS does not try to fix the "problems" of the site but identifies the remoteness and the degree of specialization of the shipyard as the most important feature-lines for a further design proposal. A possible project-brief demands the design of a new research and leisure water centre in the RDM dock, generically described as RDM Public Bath.

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-Any object is, more or less, a product of its environment, it inherits all the characteristics of the society it is created in. As a product of a particular society, it inevitably is a variation of the all the processes of this environment.
+VARIATIONS looks at the assignment as an opportunity to design a process that defines objects as belonging to classes and families. According to variation principles, every stage of the design becomes a physical entity that learns from predecessors and informs new iterations. The design is then able to evolve and ultimately behave as part of a redefined family(the totality of projects).
-One may see the assignment of building on water(even if in a dock) as a sort of terra-forming. Whether we speak of islands of soil and rock, or islands of memory(Solarys) or even "social islands" (more than physical ones-The lord of the flies), we must recognize that all of them speak about the same thing, they all create views of the world.
+The Public Bath-Variations is focused on describing influences on site that could allow for the concept: Clean Water Floats Between Piers to materialize in an architectural object. For this, a roaming area is defined and materialized into both under-water and above-water spaces that cluster around pedestrian passage-ways, providing new links across the site as well as creating spaces to enjoy and discover water as the most important factor in the RDM environment. The Public Baths help establish the area as, not only, a research, working and living environment but as a new social hub in Rotterdam.
+The Public Baths address a broad spectrum of users, not only serving users/inhabitants of the cultural, residential, commercial communities newly established on site but actually providing other projects with an influx of people coming to RDM mainly because of the Baths.
+Public  Bath-Variations takes advantage of the research and building facilities available inside RDM Dock in terms of ship and submarine building technologies.
+The client of the Public  Bath is described as the result of a public-private partnership between the Public Authority for Sport and Leisure in Rotterdam and RDM Innovation Dock(comprising entities with know-how in ship-building and underwater construction&research).
+VARIATIONS does not try to fix the "problems" of the site but identifies the remoteness and the degree of specialization of the shipyard as the most important feature-lines for a further design proposal. A possible project-brief demands the design of a new research and leisure water centre in the RDM dock, generically described as RDM Public Bath.
-We are going to name these views "variations" as these views transform a mere object into a process. This transformation is possible through variation as this method allows one to decode the process into physical entities.
-Each entity is precious as it is a link to the other objects in the same class, only together can they be coherent enough to convey meaning to the design research.
-Variation inside a class of objects describes its complexity. Describing these variations means finding small differences which make each element of such a class unique. Using variation as a method of research means not just designing one building but a series of buildings. For this, we aim to investigate the possibility of associating the notion of behavior with a building or with a built environment.
-Thus, variation can be seen as a way of describing, say, the  changing in morphology of an architectural object, but most importantly, "to vary" means to transform  a common building into a class, to give it a special array of behavioral characteristics.
-The team's strategy will be that of firstly looking at objects and trying to describe them as a variation of multiple factors, once this stage is over, the part this project will play within the group (as the environment the architectural variation describes) and within the city(as a design exercise) will become clearer.
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