Tossols-Basil Bath Pavilion

The bath pavilion is one of the early works of the Spanish design team, built in 1995 in a riverside park where people come to swim and rest under the trees.

The pavilion is small and kept deliberately low. A thin roof rests on slender supports, reading as a horizontal line under the canopy of the forest, and the light structure leaves the trunks and the ground around them untouched.

The ink sketches made for the project show how it was conceived as part of the landscape rather than an object within it: a few strokes for the roof, the trees rising through and around it. In the photographs, the pavilion almost disappears into the shade of the wood.