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Circular Bath
With the extreme mountain scenery of Langtang Valley and the emerald lake of Gosaikunda, the spa here should integrate mountain and water, heat and wind into the architectural design and symbiosis with the bath. The building is a ring that is embedded at the point where the hillside meets the lake, creating a spatial contrast between the inside and the outside. The roof of the building is taken from the double pitched roof of the chalets commonly found around Lake Gosaikunda, and the building materials are mainly wood and stone, which are common in the area.
The building is in line with the topography of the site. The first floor of the building is close to the lake, and the northwest side of the second floor roof is level with the hillside ground. Entering from here, you can follow a downhill path to the main entrance on the first floor.
Although it is not a desert here, building a public building for people to rest and relax on the desolate hillside requires a large amount of domestic water. On the east roof, we set up a rainwater intake port to collect and purify the rainwater and store it in a tank for daily use. At the same time, on the first floor close to the lake, we set up a set of lake water intake facilities, which are used to make up for the insufficient storage of rainwater. Under the toilet and the indoor bath is a wastewater treatment system. After purification, the wastewater is not toxic to the environment. Together with the sediment pond and purified feces, it is discharged into the soil under the nearby hillside, which also brings nutrients to the vegetation.
On the northwest side, a row of solar photovoltaic power generation panels is set along the slope of the roof. During the day, the interior is lit by glass and hardly needs artificial lighting. At night, the electricity converted by solar energy turns this place into a bright and warm habitat.
The heat exchange equipment room on the west side is the energy core of the whole building. The abundant geothermal energy resources here can not only provide indoor heating and hot water for the bath, but also convert geothermal energy into electricity to continuously provide power for all activities in the building.
A circular wooden building not only integrates with the mountain and water, but also makes full use of the energy of the site to form a complete energy cycle.