How do homeless people take a shower?

Wandering for a day or lifetime. They are all wanderers. Everyone might desire to stay nameless. Going to the bathhouse might be a way to get freedom. First,I study bathhouse typology from different countries. The shower space on the left side, where you can enjoy the common shower slowly, While the right one has its use with its time. There was once a water shortage and plague in Rome due to the wars. The government invented a spray system for the purpose of cleaning.

The address of the bathhouse is like an identity of a person, hidden in the site. Two groups of people meet in a parallel space without identity, therefore come across each other’s life. The bathhouse,I studied typology and the system of energy circulation for the purpose of cleanliness or luxury, to rewrite the experiences of people from different worlds. Everyone might desire to abandon their own identity. You can come to the Nameless Bathhouse. To redefine how a bathhouse serves people.

Everyone might want to think out of the identity in reality of their own. Going to the Bathhouse might be a way to get freedom. How do we know if it’s the reality? When the fish gates at the outside, it sees the distorted reality. Thus Hawking asked" Perhaps our whole life, we've been seeing the world through a distorted glass" like fishes, just we don’t know. I start to think: Perhaps in another space lives a group of unusual people. Imagine if you could detach the reality and feel their existence?

The book《A Critical History》mentioned communicating through space is like editing morse code,things begin to put together without realising. And Dali considers a soft clock as a signal by distorting the clock that we were used to thinking. I’m curious whether two parallel spaces could meet each other through architecture?

The program, the bathhouse with surreal spatial character. and it has a clear purpose, that is public with maximum privacy. Everyone might want to escape from their original identities. It might be a way to liberate the citizens’ loneliness in a metropolitan area.

The bathhouse is supported by the customers. It’s a real reaction to modern capitalism and consumer society. For example, in Greece,Rome and Asia. All bathhouses have common effects. Putting people of different hierarchies, ethnicities and ages together. It’s a place for everyone: In Japan, the bathhouse is used for daily life.

However we know the difference between bathing and showering. It’s just like the morse code. Tschumi said  “Architecture is narrating, when you enter a space, it’s like entering a new story. Through events, architecture elements can be rethinked, redefined and combined in a space. I consider every event of the bath house as a signal to overlap, combine, and replace them. To rewrite our daily experience with energy. So, I chose the site which holds two sides from the reality in Taipei city, located in the centre of Bangka night market.

People come here with different status.

Site is between the street of day and night. There is a ruined and old house, leaving over all the details from the lives on the opposite side of the city. The place was a red light district just opened at night, until the prostitution was retrieved. The day street now returns to people’s daily life in daytime. The Night market opens at night everyday. However, it is covered in a world of concrete, the alley away from the street hides a lot of signals. There’s a road that didn't exist before, but it was later formed by people’s steps. They live a life inside the block. It’s a night market with lots of massage stores. People would flock in the evening. It’s a small entrance at Ln.57, Huaxi St., but has often been ignored. The right entrance There’s a Ruin on the opposite side of the city. The right entrance is a junction of Guangxi St. and Xiyuan Road for unknown reasons. And often causes people to lose their sense of direction.

After the urban renewal, Huaxi St still keeps the old appearance, but it has become a place with unreachable address. It’s difficult to enter the site. It has become an unexisting address. However, workers, travellers or backpackers often gather at Huaxi night market. For getting massages, drinking, shopping and entertainment. The neighbourhood lives on Day-street. Also homeless people rent the ruins near the Day-street. “For the homeless, finding food is not hard, but too hard to find a place to take a shower.” Meanwhile they have no interaction, as if they are in parallel spaces. But, wandering for a day or lifetime. They are all wanderers. Some might want to stay nameless. Going to the bathhouse might be a way to get freedom.

First, I study bathhouse typology from different countries. The shower space on the left side, where you can enjoy the common shower slowly, While the right one has its use with its time. There was once a water shortage and plague in Rome due to the wars. The government invented a spray system for the purpose of cleaning. Then,I decoded bathing and shower space. And found contrasting space signals, for clean or luxury. I rethink the possibility of coding the signals. I started to think from the section, and studied the backwater, recharge and effluent of the two water changing systems. The bathhouse refills water everyday, or you can recycle water after cleaning every week. For paid and free. Use the remaining energy from entertaining consumption. Provide free space in the energy circulation system. The red system for paid. The blue system for free.

So, Let’s take a shower!

There are two entrances. Everyone can choose either way to enter the bathhouse, use the way as they wish to. And meet others at the rooftop, which is free. When you walk through the night market, you will find a dark path and walk into a crack of the city. However, someone enters the free entrance. You can take the elevator to the higher level, then walk down to take a shower. Unload the weariness and abandon identity. Then you will enter a box full of light and filled with bath water. The steaming hot air invites someone to sit at the rooftop, the bathing gets darker, You can hear the whispering from above. Fog coming out of the insulating wall in the open bathing. You realise that you are hidden among people. Within the distance where they can’t see each other, someone can enjoy a sauna inside the wall.

When you walk through the water curtain, Someone noticed water drifting from the sediment pool. Meanwhile someone washes the dirty foot at the flushing pool under the fog. You can look at the drifting smoke outside the gap. While someone is doing laundry, all the sound is covered by the pool. And seeing the people rising and falling, and you float in the pool and watch his reaction. Then meeting people that come from different worlds at the public rooftop, and share the ups and downs in your lifes. Eventually they put on their own shoes.And walk back to real life.

Detach you from the real identity. While changing the bath,feel the different temperature, and meet different people. The address of the bathhouse is like an identity of a person, hidden in there. Two groups of people meet in a parallel space without identity, therefore come across each other’s life. In the end, the bathhouse. I studied typology and the system of energy circulation for the purpose of cleanliness or luxury, to rewrite the experiences of people from different worlds. Everyone might desire to abandon their own. You can come to the Nameless Bathhouse. To redefine how a bathhouse serves people.