Anachronistic waters: A public bath for the New World Order

摘要

I propose a landscape of water "flow" on the existing Toronto Dominion Centre site. Using the medium of water, I want to create an architecture that is both critical and instructive in the way it employs "natural" process (that is, dynamic irrationality) to inform its own response to site, to program and ultimately, to the way it shapes space. In essence, the architecture will act as a vessel for the collection, purification and deployment of urban storm water (using biological treatment methods). Part of the building program will include a public bathing facility.;The MDP document does not follow a conventional format. It is, hopefully, another kind of artefact too, whose very graphic nature tells a story with images and carefully juxtaposed text that a simple prose paper could not do. It is not meant to be literally interpreted at all times. Nor does it intend to answer questions explicitly. Rather, it is meant to broaden the current discourse about architecture and city, and what relevance they have to the new electronic reality that is upon us. (Abstract shortened by UMI.).