(Un)doing Thresholds
Door/ways to new Neapolitan Practices
The Bathouse
The Bathhouse is part of a larger design proposal located in Santissima Trinità delle Monache, an old, abandoned Monastery located in the Neapolitan Spanish Quarters. It reactivates the everyday, domestic functions found in the Santissima Trinità. It holds on to the privatised roman bath rituals as well as operates as an open public pool for the residents of the Spanish Quarters.
© Joseph Coulter, Eirini Makarouni, Katerina Saranti & Katy Sidwell
The Bathhouse is part of a larger design proposal located in Santissima Trinità delle Monache, an old, abandoned Monastery located in the Neapolitan Spanish Quarters. It reactivates the everyday, domestic functions found in the Santissima Trinità. It holds on to the privatised roman bath rituals as well as operates as an open public pool for the residents of the Spanish Quarters.
© Joseph Coulter, Eirini Makarouni, Katerina Saranti & Katy Sidwell
Through Graeme Gilloch’s and Walter Benjamin’s readings we have drawn the city as a series of animated thresholds, made up of ruins, labyrinths and theatres (see Animate Drawing). The Bathhouse reappropriates these porous conditions. Ruins become the foundations of the building, labyrinths become the spaces of circulation and theatres become the spaces of performance and interaction. Together, these intersecting spaces create thresholds or rather Door/Ways of reaching out to the city.
