rain, river, pipe, tap

«Rain, river, pipe, tap» is about using water to create opportunities for community and mutual care around the rituals of everyday life - drinking, showering, bathing, washing, cleaning.

Rainwater is collected, partially used in the building for the sanitary facilities, and otherwise directed to flow into the open ground floor, creating an urban landscape thought as a public space for the neighbourhood.

Private rooms are bathrooms equally as they are bedrooms. In each of them, a toilet and a shower articulate the space.

Two light wells provide a transition between these private spaces and the communal areas, and also serve to passively ventilate the building.

The communal areas countain showers, bath, laundry and are punctuated by fountains, which are the only sinks in the building, encouraging residents to share the daily rituals related to water.

The large communal spaces are flexible in terms of uses and levels of intimacy, and ready to be appropriated, rearranged and transgressed.

«Rain, river, pipe, tap» is about drinking, showering, bathing, washing, cleaning - but equally about dance, craft, sex, play, big dinners and small parties, and anything else that doesn’t need rain, river, pipe, tap to happen.