Thursday, October 9, 2025
  • About C3
  • Advertising
C3GLOBE
  • Latest

    Moken Resort

    Yasukawa Hair Salon

    Bangjja Yugi Museum

    The Suffolk Coastal Housestead

    WON International Retreat Center

    Mies van der Rohe Pavilion Hosts Performance Exhibition, ‘Lost Limits’

    House BV

    Yeonil

    Sijing Town Sports Center

  • Architecture
    • All
    • Asia
    • China
    • Japan
    • Korea
    • World

    Moken Resort

    Yasukawa Hair Salon

    Bangjja Yugi Museum

    The Suffolk Coastal Housestead

    WON International Retreat Center

    Fluctuart Urban Art Center

    House BV

    Yeonil

    Sijing Town Sports Center

  • Competitions
    • All
    • Call for Entries
    • Results

    EUmies Awards Young Talent 2025

    BIG Wins International Competition for Hungarian Natural History Museum in Debrecen

    Six finalists for Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Expansion

    Montjuïc Exhibition Center Remodeling – Barcelona Expo 100th Anniversary Competition Result

    Five designs selected for Finnish Museum of Architecture and Design competition

    Mextrópoli 2025 Pavilion

    RSHP and TJAD Unveil Plans for Phase 2 of Zhongyuan Convention Center

    2024 Skyscraper Competition winners announced

    ‘SIAPLAN + 3XN + MDA’ Consortium wins Chungnam Arts Center International Design Competition

  • News

    Mies van der Rohe Pavilion Hosts Performance Exhibition, ‘Lost Limits’

    Adrián Villar Rojas: first solo exhibition in Korea ‘The Language of the Enemy’

    ‘Lee Bul: From 1998 to Now’ opens at Leeum Museum of Art

    2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, ‘National Pavilions’

    2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, ‘Thematic Exhibition as a Living Laboratory’

    2025 Venice Biennale, the 19th International Architecture Exhibition Opens ‘Architecture as Adaptive Intelligence’

    2025 Serpentine Pavilion ‘A Capsule in Time’ Unveiled

    Exhibition ‘Capital Reform’ Showcases Young Madrid Architects’ architectural experiments and potential

    Danish Architecture Center Hosts the ‘Recycle!’ Exhibition

  • :
  • C3Magazine
No Result
View All Result
  • Latest

    Moken Resort

    Yasukawa Hair Salon

    Bangjja Yugi Museum

    The Suffolk Coastal Housestead

    WON International Retreat Center

    Mies van der Rohe Pavilion Hosts Performance Exhibition, ‘Lost Limits’

    House BV

    Yeonil

    Sijing Town Sports Center

  • Architecture
    • All
    • Asia
    • China
    • Japan
    • Korea
    • World

    Moken Resort

    Yasukawa Hair Salon

    Bangjja Yugi Museum

    The Suffolk Coastal Housestead

    WON International Retreat Center

    Fluctuart Urban Art Center

    House BV

    Yeonil

    Sijing Town Sports Center

  • Competitions
    • All
    • Call for Entries
    • Results

    EUmies Awards Young Talent 2025

    BIG Wins International Competition for Hungarian Natural History Museum in Debrecen

    Six finalists for Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Expansion

    Montjuïc Exhibition Center Remodeling – Barcelona Expo 100th Anniversary Competition Result

    Five designs selected for Finnish Museum of Architecture and Design competition

    Mextrópoli 2025 Pavilion

    RSHP and TJAD Unveil Plans for Phase 2 of Zhongyuan Convention Center

    2024 Skyscraper Competition winners announced

    ‘SIAPLAN + 3XN + MDA’ Consortium wins Chungnam Arts Center International Design Competition

  • News

    Mies van der Rohe Pavilion Hosts Performance Exhibition, ‘Lost Limits’

    Adrián Villar Rojas: first solo exhibition in Korea ‘The Language of the Enemy’

    ‘Lee Bul: From 1998 to Now’ opens at Leeum Museum of Art

    2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, ‘National Pavilions’

    2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, ‘Thematic Exhibition as a Living Laboratory’

    2025 Venice Biennale, the 19th International Architecture Exhibition Opens ‘Architecture as Adaptive Intelligence’

    2025 Serpentine Pavilion ‘A Capsule in Time’ Unveiled

    Exhibition ‘Capital Reform’ Showcases Young Madrid Architects’ architectural experiments and potential

    Danish Architecture Center Hosts the ‘Recycle!’ Exhibition

  • :
  • C3Magazine
No Result
View All Result
C3GLOBE
No Result
View All Result
Home Latest

Round About Bath

An urban fountain becomes public space

Leopold Banchini Architects

A semi-circular fountain located in a traffic roundabout in downtown Logroño, Spain, has been transformed into an open-air bathhouse. Part of the 2025 Concéntrico Architecture and Design Festival, ‘Round About Baths’ borrows from the concept of 19th-century public baths. Built as a timber wall structure that fully encloses the water-filled basin, the project converts an isolated urban feature, surrounded by roads, into a space of intimate interaction through the medium of water. Once assigned a role as part of the city‘s infrastructure but largely overlooked, the site has been reactivated as a space of public significance.

Once a key element of public hygiene infrastructure for the working class in the 19th century, urban bathhouses have gradually disappeared, replaced by private, commercially driven wellness centers that reflect contemporary lifestyles. Round About Baths offers a place of rest within the city, equipped with changing rooms, a steam room, and cold-water basins. By revealing the latent potential of car-dominated urban systems, the installation calls attention to forgotten public spaces and reimagines how they might be used.
The bathhouse structure is composed of a timber grid frame covered with raw wooden panels. After the festival, these panels were repurposed elsewhere—but the fountain reverted to its prior state, once again losing function and returning to disuse. What remain are the memories of the bathhouse and new imaginings of what public space can become. The fountain, where water once flowed to bring people together, will fade again into urban oblivion—an absence shaped by presence.

Held each June, the Concéntrico Festival presents alternative approaches to the meaning and role of cities and public space. This year‘s edition explored four themes: ‘Food,’ ‘Climate,’ ‘Water,’ and ‘Social Processes and Social processes and rituals,’ offering 24 ways of engaging with the urban environment. As part of the ‘Water as landscape’ theme, Round About Baths demonstrates the role water can play as both material and meeting point in the urban landscape. Though the bath’s shimmering waters may have vanished like a mirage, the source of a new urban spring has been tapped—and it flows again.

Project: Round About Bath / Location: Concentrico 2025, Logroño, Spain / Architect: Leopold Banchini Architects / Completion: 2025 / Photograph: ©Sara Cuerdo (courtesy of the architect), ©Gregori Civera (courtesy of the architect), ©Josema Cutillas (courtesy of the Concéntrico 2025)

Tags: bathhouseConcéntricopavilionSpain


Related Posts

Korea

Moken Resort

A village along the valley IDMM Architects Moken Resort is located on the outskirts of...

byc3editor
2025-10-08
Japan

Yasukawa Hair Salon

A harmony of traditional structure and modern sensibility Koyori In a quiet alley of Kyoto,...

byc3editor
2025-10-07
Latest

The Suffolk Coastal Housestead

An experiment to integrate people, time, nature, and sustainability Sanei + Hopkins Located along the...

byc3editor
2025-10-06
Korea

Bangjja Yugi Museum

A Space of Time Forged in Material Purity studio heech A traditional Korean bronzeware ‘Bangjja...

byc3editor
2025-10-06
Korea

WON International Retreat Center

A place of reflection to empty mind Kim Seunghoy (SNU) + Kang Wonphil (KYWC Architects)...

byc3editor
2025-10-03
World

Fluctuart Urban Art Center

A new platform of street art docked on the banks of the River Seine Seine...

byc3editor
2025-10-02
Next Post

Home Urban Home

  • About C3
  • Advertising
C3GLOBE

© All rights reserved. K-ARCHITECTURE | 18 GongHangDaeRo 2Gil GangSeo-gu Seoul 07622 Korea | Tel_+82 2 2661 1513 | Email_editorial@c3globe.com

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In

Add New Playlist

No Result
View All Result
  • Latest
  • Architecture
    • Asia
    • China
    • Japan
    • Korea
    • World
  • Competitions
    • Call for Entries
    • Results
  • News
  • —
  • About C3
  • Advertising

© All rights reserved. K-ARCHITECTURE | 18 GongHangDaeRo 2Gil GangSeo-gu Seoul 07622 Korea | Tel_+82 2 2661 1513 | Email_editorial@c3globe.com