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The project explores the proximity and intimate relationship between architectural features and their inhabitants.
In contemporary societies, people often perceive and categorise their territories based on the different environments they meet one another – such as fun-loving or flirtatious encounters. These intimate environments require a smart compromise of openness and closure.
The project is a water park and holiday centre for the queer community to relax and explore their subconscious fantasies in an obscure, intimate, safe, and illusionary environment. Located in Brighton, the building sits along the seafront.
Unique structural spaces are created to allow inhabitants, architectural elements, and the site’s landscape to engage playfully with each other. It can be experienced through a series of designs from the changing room hugging doors, to the techno-sexual moments in the water slides, that allow the bodies of inhabitants to touch and sense the architectural surfaces.
A physical model of an interactive flirtatious device in a bar on Endell Street, including engaging elements, tactile architectural features, and techno sexual mechanical flirting movements between architectural features.
A digital render of the bar space. A slide is designed for water to flow down from the top to the basement floor.
Light illuminates the space and a set of staircases on top of the changing space allow users to engage and view the scene of water pushing valves. A ceiling drops down to touch and flirt with the ground above the carnival pool.
An overall perspective view shows the carnival space, pool, tidal interaction space and the building's relationship to the sea.
Ground floor plan and a cut section of the building for the building's major spaces, including the shift dance floor, roof leisure room, washing area, and flirtatious valves.