Cars dancing endlessly round and around, drawing inaccessible circular spaces punctuaBng our ciBes, looking for meaning. 

What about roundabout what? 

Round About Baths is a temporary public building transforming an impersonal and inaccessible fountain trapped at the centre of relentless traffic into an inBmate and communal experience where undressed bodies meet in water. Pride of 19th century’s social movements promoBng public hygiene for the working class, urban public baths have slowly closed their doors to be unsurprisingly replaces by private and commercial “wellness centres”, mirrors of our Bmes. 

Combining changing rooms, steam rooms and cold-water fountain basins, Round About Baths offers privacy while occupying a central point in the city. Revealing hidden potenBals in a car dominated urban environment, the temporary public program hacks the street equipment and transforms our percepBon of this forgo;en space. 

The high walls of the bathing facility are made of a regular Bmber structure cladded with uncut wooden panels temporarily used for the installaBon. If the panels will find a second life a\er the fesBval, the fountain itself will go back to its uselessness, leaving behind only memories and new vision of what public space could be. 

The heart of the restless circle of moBon, shaped by absence, will go back to oblivion.