The Lost Bathhouse of Maastricht

The Lost Bathhouse of Maastricht

Ştefănescu, Ecaterina (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Schreurs, Eireen (mentor)
Fokkinga, Jelke (graduation committee)
Pietsch, Susanne (mentor)
Nijhuis, Steffen (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences

2018-06-28

Imagining the ruins of a Roman bathhouse on a forgotten river site in Maastricht, the project reflects on the idea of authenticity and manipulation of history in architecture. The building is imagined as a ruin and reflects on the role of ruins in architecture and how the roman ritual of bathing can be interpreted in contemporary times. The new bathhouse forges a dialogue between the new and the fake-old, and the baths and the Jeker river, through a system of layering that aims to mitigate the scale and solidity of the ruin with the tactile, intimate spaces for bathing. The festive is manifested in the programme of pleasure and in the reinterpretation and fantastical recreation of the ancient roman past of Maastricht.

Architecture
Maastricht
Ruins
History

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Student theses

master thesis

© 2018 Ecaterina Ştefănescu