The Architectonic Language of Water Part 1 Project 2025 Melania Wilkin-Miralles University of Kent | UK The bathhouse in Canterbury, embodies the lived and living moments of the local community, evoking the dreamed unconscious spaces of the human experience. The building flows like water, in amongst each other, outside and inside, with the environment and community forming a microcosm. The buildings dynamism mirrors natural patterns and dialogues, inviting the reflection on one's own relationships with the self, community and physical landscape. Becoming a space of memorable moments and encounters, enriching the understanding of the time we inhabit. The poetical nature of the spatial journey, a sequence of pools punctuated by curving walls, forms a bathhouse of feeling. The space builds upon its inhabitant's experience in relation to nature and the sentiments it evokes of tranquility, rest and growth. The physical infrastructure and function of the building echos these principles, with walls being made of bio-regional materials, hempcrete, rammed chalk and flint. The ceiling curves and flows, channelling the rainwater to be filtered in the reeds' beds on the riverbank to then be used in the pools. The universal function of a bathhouse, a space to heal both physically and mentally as a community, is reflected in the building's relationship with the natural landscape. Tutor(s)