Vincent Leonardo

To realize phenomenological ideas as a way to respond to the technology-dominated and quick-paced urban calamity that diminishes our senses; the architectural language of this project was derived from the romantic aesthetic concepts of sublimity, related to feelings of awe and reverence, as a method of challenging the senses.

In hope to create feelings of bewilderment, monumentality, honesty of materiality, the design attempts to disorient and diminish the users’ sensory perception of the public realm before experiencing a space of meandering pathways, created through a multitude of compartmentalized rectangular baths, of which their individual tectonics were adjusted to intensify each of their varying sensory encounters for a rejuvenating experience.

_{Reference List1. The persistence of memory
Dali, S (1913). The Persistence of Memory [Oil on canvas]. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Persistence_of_Memory}

_{2. Mountain Landscape
Friedrich, C. D. (1823). Felsenlandschaft im Elbsandsteingebirge [Oil on canvas]. Artsy. https://www.artsy.net/artwork/caspar-david-friedrich-mountain-landscape-felsenlandschaft-im-elbsandsteingebirge}

_{3. An avalanche in the alps
De Loutherbourg, P. J. (1802). An Avalanche in the Alps [Oil on canvas]. Tate. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/de-loutherbourg-an-avalanche-in-the-alps-t00772}

_{4. Comfort in the metropolis
Brodsky, A. and Utkin, I. (1990). Comfort in the Metropolis [Etching]. Artsy. https://www.artsy.net/artwork/alexander-brodsky-and-ilya-utkin-comfort-in-the-metropolis}