Shinrin-yoku

Exhibited in Artpark overlooking the Niagara Gorge, the team’s bathing structure sits among four other ritual spaces (food prepping, resting, gathering, and working) to form a conceptual concept of an open space “home”. 

This 10-foot experiential space is formed by a series of thresholds and density that is locked together by beam components, advancing an interlock system from the previous semester. The construction phase moved quickly through the latter half of the semester with over 200 components prepared entirely by the team in shop from douglas fir lumbers. With a limit of 64 square footage, we focused on Shinrin-yoku (forest bathing in Japanese) to create a therapeautic space to stimulate a sense of tranquility through patterns of privacy.