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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:

  1. threshold between sauna and its landscape is made visible, becoming the main space of the pavilion
  2. water vessels illuminated with hidden lighting to reveal temperature of water
  3. an attempt to dissolve the boundaries between architecture and landscape, nature and artifice

completion date: 1997-8