- Serenity
- Peace
- Experience
- Flow
- Harmonious
- Wider understanding
My design explores how the serenity of New Zealand forest can be trickled in and experienced within the space of the bathhouse. I am exploring how to integrate the outside world with the inside by altering the threshold that divides the two. My design focuses on the flow throughout the space and the harmony of movement, emphasising the harmony of mauritanga within the native New Zealand pocket forest. I want to explore the peacefulness of the forest in my design with the experience through sound, sight, movement, smell, temperature in feel. I don’t want to disrupt the flow between the land and the sky with alterations to the surface in the forest, but I want guests to be immersed in the experience of the forest. I want people to understand the meaning of the forest through their experience in the bathhouse. I can’t integrate my bath house design into the forest, so I’ll integrate the forest into my bathhouse. I will do this by using sight, sound, texture and temperature to create the calming, soothing, relaxing and harmonious atmosphere of the forest in my design.
Spatial Design by Ciara 