The viewer will be engaged in a scenic narrative of functionality and experience that takes the multifaceted qualities of water and renders it into a series of coded spaces portraying surfaces vulnerable to decay and materials exposed to weathering.  Water systems are delineated and explored independently as proposals for program with an emphasis on capturing, using, distributing, and disposing of water by exploring scalability in the architecture. This project in its entirety behaves as a system in the sense of interdependency and use. The ritual of bathing is broken off into components and dispersed throughout the landscape proportionally distributing use. The program’s specific locations are dependent on a series of natural and sequential conditions such as slope, elevation, surrounding water sources and habitat, and landscape. Unfolding the project into a one mile distance, allows a person to pause in between activities and reflect in its context through ongoing exploration.

Through the procession of the person, senses begin to be awakened by the dramatic changes in light and surfaces, the sounds of running water, the pharmaceutical odors of fresh flowers and the moist air combined. The stripping off of the external layers inhabits the realm of the ceremony that brings together a community by allowing the experience of water to be explored from communal pools to a water amphitheater, to secluded steam rooms that soothes and renews a person.