The strength of the design lies in the fact that there is a reason to look up everywhere. Our heads are passively directed to look upwards. This embodies the direct attraction of light.
In the basement the physical cleansing takes place. On the ground floor, the social event where one can converse, drink tea or read.
The upper floors are reserved for the spiritual aspect of the Hammam. There is a staged skyspace, an open air skyspace, and in the attic space the ritual skyspace. The highlight of the hammam is experiencing the ritual in the long light shaft, where a reflection on the ceiling gives the impression of floating in the sky. The skyway to heaven. The sky is an extension of my design and is therefore also visualised as an extension.
Hammam in the Sky
Re-allocating a former mansion to an unseen hammam that excels in its uniqueness and conceptuality.
In order to go beyond the boundaries of the hammam as we know it today, I went through a journey where I had to disprove my own assumptions in order to come to new insights about the concept of "cleansing".
This led to an evolution in the design process where the "traditional hammam" gradually disappeared and made way for the hammam 2.0 aka. "Hammam In The Sky".
