sauna
construction by: oxford brookes university students, reenie elliott, francois girardin.
installation type+location: timber sauna pavilion, on site of former swimming pool, headington hill hall, oxford
invisible elements:
- threshold between sauna and its landscape is made visible, becoming the main space of the pavilion
- water vessels illuminated with hidden lighting to reveal temperature of water
- an attempt to dissolve the boundaries between architecture and landscape, nature and artifice
completion date: 1997-8