Studio Moments
Studio Moments
Entanglement
How might civic architecture in Bryggjuhverfið, Reykjavík cultivate spaces for communal rituals of gathering and restoration that help residents sustain wellbeing through extremes of winter darkness and summer light, drawing on the city’s geothermal landscape and rituals of shared bathing?
This project investigates how architecture can choreograph a bathing ritual through a sequence of spatial thresholds where shifts in compression and expansion, light and darkness, and thermal conditions structure the experience. The primary relationships explored are between bodily movement, threshold, light, and care. This allows architectural elements such as enclosure, material, and aperture to intensify transitions between states of immersion, cleansing, and release. These transformations produce a series of distinct yet continuous spatial atmospheres that guide the individual through a restorative journey. At a civic scale, the project acts as a communal anchor for wellness and ritual gathering, reinforcing collective resilience while establishing an architectural identity rooted in sensory contrast, procession, and the articulation of thresholds.