HTML <h1>Observation Sauna in Bochum by modulorbeat</h1>
Within the artistic festival 'Das Detroit-Projekt', a project for a vertical sauna designed for one person has emerged in Bochum. The year-round festival's name alludes to the American parallel of a city that blindly relied on a single industrial sector. Bochum also experienced an unprecedented boom in the entire region due to coal mining and the steel industry in the Ruhr, followed by a similarly dramatic decline.
The abandoned area between the city of Bochum and the mining regions of the Ruhr has long been addressed by the research group Borderlands, which, under the unified motto “Doing Nothing in the Borderland,” has reached out to a number of urban planners, designers, and architects, among them the Münster studio modulorbeat with its unusual sauna. The seven-and-a-half-meter-high structure made of dark concrete prefabricates is located on a former factory dump and, with its aesthetic reminiscent of mining towers, refers to a bygone mining tradition. The concrete pieces originally served to shore up mine shafts. A visitor to the sauna will sweat in the tower just as miners once did underground. This time, however, the only physical exertion will involve climbing ladders from the central sauna to the lower pool and then to the relaxation area at the top of the tower.
The 'Das Detroit-Projekt' festival will run in Bochum until this October, but you can only reserve the sauna until the end of July.
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The abandoned area between the city of Bochum and the mining regions of the Ruhr has long been addressed by the research group Borderlands, which, under the unified motto “Doing Nothing in the Borderland,” has reached out to a number of urban planners, designers, and architects, among them the Münster studio modulorbeat with its unusual sauna. The seven-and-a-half-meter-high structure made of dark concrete prefabricates is located on a former factory dump and, with its aesthetic reminiscent of mining towers, refers to a bygone mining tradition. The concrete pieces originally served to shore up mine shafts. A visitor to the sauna will sweat in the tower just as miners once did underground. This time, however, the only physical exertion will involve climbing ladders from the central sauna to the lower pool and then to the relaxation area at the top of the tower.
The 'Das Detroit-Projekt' festival will run in Bochum until this October, but you can only reserve the sauna until the end of July.
More information >
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