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VARIATIONS
author(s):Ana Anton & Serban Bodea
Clean Water Floats Between Piers
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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