Bath House Report for Porto, Portugal

Bath House
Porto, Portugal
Farid Mahmood
U1111611
Technical Studies Report
Unit H
Level 3

A Report based on the technical issues of a bath house used by locals and public as well as
dwelling with functional spaces to bring back the people of porto to ocupy the city once again.

Contents
Captured Space
Components Exploded Axo
Spaces of Interest
Porto, Portugal
Ribiera Strip
Site Pictures
Historical Site Context
Sun Orientation
Existing Section
Alameda das Fontainhas
Sao Nicholao- Wash House
Alver Siza Pools
Drainage towards River Douro
Brief and Intended Users
Intended Proggrames
Neighbourhood Activty
Arrebita
Site plan
Main Proggramatic Plans
Inhabited Section
Axometric of Structural Elements
Site Constraints
Baths
Roof Terrace
Light Partition Design
Foundation Strategy
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Captured Space
Turn End
Original Model Scale 1:10

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Roof Cladding
Roof Joists
Structural Beam
Roof Cladding
Roof Cladding
Roof Cladding
Roof Joists
Structural Beam
Roof Joists
Window frame / Beam
Vertical frame design
Window Base Frame
Structural Beam
Structural Beam
Structural Beam
Side Roof Cladding
Side supportive joist, kitchen to bath-
room
Joists, kitchen to bathroom
Ceiling 4’x2’ fra
Closit Wall
Clothes Wardrobe
Wooden Shelfing Drawer Unit
Block Side Table
Block Wall Shelfing Unit
Higher Ground Level Floor
Lower Ground Level Floor
Block Seating Area
Roof Supportive beam
Steps To Higher Level
Block Kitchen Unit
Block Side Table
Block Wall
Block Structural Wall
Components Exploded Axo
Drawing Scale- 1:100
Original Model Scale- 1:10

Dressing room window
Bathrm Natural Light to Psge WindowCast glass in passage
Turn End stands strong and upright today since
the start of its build in 1964 for its structure
made from block work and timber. The block work
built onto concrete foundations following timber
elements to structure and aesthetics.
The main element in turn end that came to my
focus was the roof, It was shped in order to al-
low rain to pass down it from roof to another.
The roofs worked great with the abstract win-
dows, especially at the bathroom as the struc-
turaal elements kept there way gooing from once
element to another and this was intrugding. A
well working repetitive pattern used for the ab-
stract windows in Turn End work really well ex-
posing themeselves to rest on a roof as well as
carring a roof over them.
A cast glass. This cast
glass is one of my favourite
pieces due to its process of
planning and design creat-
ing a vibrant atmosphere.
It is located on the ceiling
of the passage upper land-
ing looking up. The skill
here is that the light does
not come directly from the
cast glass itself; rather, it
comes from the bathroom
window. This window is in-
stalled south facing allowing
a contrast of light between
the spaces with also a re-
petitive vertical pattern.
Spaces of interest
Roof Drawing Scale 1:50
Kitchen Roof Indoors
The Block work at turn end was influencial
in how everyday day spaces can be cre-
ated with permnant lego like blocks. This
interested me as most of the furniture was
physically linked to the structural elements
of the building. Reminding me how structure
is built to take up a dead and live loads, in
this case it was doing actually doing that
with everyday used spaces and furniture.
Kitchen Built with block work
Fire place, (block work)
Table with shelfing, (block work)
Sofas, (block work)
Fire place, (block work)
Roof Tops Outdoor
Out door Window, Bathroom
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Porto, Portugal
Considering my ideas of the turn end project, the
next focus for me was to implement ideas from
the project into the porto distric. Porto located in
portugal as one of the main cities in the country
known for its vine yards and houses for wine to
be distributed all over europe. Today, porto is a
tourist site that many people across the world visit
for its history of wine. Despite porto attracting
many tourists, it has many abandoned houses and
alot of it’s own poeple moving out due to the city
council capping house rents to ten euros a month
and not meeting the needs for property owners
meant that the people renting out were left with
unfinished houses to live in. The cost of income was
excepionally low as well. This was the challenge i
had to consider in order to move on for considering
a proposal suitable enough for the local community
itself as first in order to stay and give hope to the
people that porto will change with tourists as an
advantage aswell.
from
London
to
Portugal,
Porto
Map scale - 1:5000
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Ribiera Strip
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Map scale - 1:5000
Francisco
VictoriaTaipas
S. Bento
Santa
Clara
Clerigos
Ribeira/Barredo
Avenida
da
Ponte
Mouzinho
/
Flores
S.E.
1- Clerigos
2- Taipas
3- Victoria
4- Aveni da Ponte
5- S. Bento
6- S.E.
7- Santa Clara
8- Mouzinho/Flores
9- Francisco
10- Ribeira/Barredo
Names of the 10 operaations:
Site:
The porto district is seperated with 10 opertaions by the local council. This was in order to seperate and
understand what areas locals use and what ares will benefit the tourists.
Out of these areas i chose to work in the ribiera strip as it was closer towards the river. The river was
important to me as i was looking into the way drainage was used in turn end and the flow of the direction
of water.
Here in Ribiera i found that most of the water was drained throughout the area by its streets as the
topography hight decreased down towards the river making the water flow down towards the river easier.
Intenteding to design a bath house, this was another priority to why i chose to work in the ribiera strip.
As this would allow more ideas for me to design withing the flow of water draining towrds the river
throught the area.
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Site Pictures
Roof, Rua da reboleira
Facade, Rua da reboleiraFacades, Rua do infante D. Henrique
Present space
SHop/ Restruant next door
River View, approxiamtly at Rua da reboleira

Historical site Context
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Map scale - 1:5000
Site:
Derelict: Porto ‘s history of derelict buildings has
been around for some time.This was due to
the fact that the city council had capped
the rent that home owners were forced to
take. This cap in rentage did not not allow
the owners of the home to keep maintaining
the houses as the rent was approxiametlly
under 10 euros which was not sufficient to
rent out otherwise, as renting was a loss
to everyone themselves at that rate of
income. they recieved. This led to home own-
ers trying to sell and moving out of porto.
1939
1839
1813 1833

Neighbourhood Activity
Restruant beside site Site Overview
Camara Municipal do Porto
(Wash House)
Washing Clothes Area
Casa No.59 da Rua da Reboleira
(Old People Homes)
View to old people homes
Grupo Desportino Infante D. Henrique
(oldest Restruant on Ribeira strip)
SKREI, Architecs Office
Gomos de Saudade
(restruant)
Open Square Pass by
Igreja de S. Nicolau
(church)
Neighbourhood Overview
Scale- 1:500
Site-
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Site
Exsisting Long Section
Section AA
Section AA
Site

Drainage towards River Douro
Influenced by the roof tops of turn end with
water flowing down them after each other,
Porto’s landscape itself reminded me of
them. The landscape of porto allows water
to drain on the streets towards the river.
The rain water is guided by the topography
lowering down towards the river as well as
man made drains for the building roof tops
to bring down the water onto the streets.
The streets also have gutters to guide
the rainwater so that the city does not
flood and to controll the flow of the water
gushing down. The gutters lead the wa-
ter collected underground its streets later
exposing the water to enter the river by its
ends.
Start End
Map Scale- 1:1000
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Water drainage circulation
section of basin works,, towards drainage
basins for everyday clothing washMain water carrier to most basins
an open public entrance for allWash basin for everyday clothesBottom drainage for basins at ground level
Washing houses are very common around the city of
porto. In an every day house, people need to wash
clothes, have a shower and bathe. Wash houses
tend to answer the main washing needs that should
be taken in an house or rather washing larger
everyday uses such as blankets and carpets etc.
Depending on the type of facilites that a certain
wash house has to offer, it is understood that they
were designated due to the lack of space in an indi-
vidual house. In porto, wash houses are very com-
mon and bring the local community together forming
a friendly neighbourhood between each other. Today,
the use of wash houses is still active within the
community of porto and in other places where you
will find small houses.
The Alameda das Fontainhas adjacent to the river
Rio Douro is designed faciliate hand washing clothes
and larger items used within a house. The wa-
ter used is pumped up, filtered and used from the
river then drained back into the river to repeat the
process once again, in this instance the river be-
comes a live tank. It is sheleterd to expose towards
the river and block off views from the parralell
street. The materials used are local materials such
as granite in order to shape the washing basins and
store the water with a concrete wall cutting off
the river and allowing a galvanised steel roof to be
formed with a steel frame structure.
Alameda das Fontainhas -
Wash House Porto
Scale 1-1000
Alameda das Fontainhas adjacent to river
Scale: 1:10000
Alameda das Fontainhas distant to site

Washing houses are very common around the city of porto. In an
every day house, people need to wash clothes, have a shower and
bathe. Wash houses tend to answer the main washing needs that
should be taken in an house or rather washing larger everyday uses
such as blankets and carpets etc. Depending on the type of facilites
that a certain wash house has to offer, it is understood that they
were designated due to the lack of space in an individual house. In
porto, wash houses are very common and bring the local community
together forming a friendly neighbourhood between each other. To-
day, the use of wash houses is still active within the community of
porto and in other places where you will find small houses.
The Sao Nicholao is also built besides the Rio Duoro, however it is
embedded below the ground forming an occupied open space above
it. This Wash house uses modern technology of washing machines
to wash clothes with dryers to dry them aswell. The use of hand
washing basins is still alive within this modern wash house, holding
the respect of locals coming together to wash their belongings and
clothes. Sao Nicholao is also used as a public toilet area for both
males and females, it introduces showers for the locals to wash
themselves in and lockers to keep belongings safe. Reinforced con-
crete is amainly used for this wash house alll around with a brick
entrance seperating the reception office from all the wet rooms. The
basins in this wash house are also formed with conctrete along with
the roof holding the open space together.
During the visit, i took notice of a few water aspects that work
really well and aspects that i could learn from in order to propose
for my bath house.
Sao Nicholao - Wash House
Paulo Providencia 1993 - Porto
Scale 1:1000
water draining down at street level into wash house
Wash basins to wash everyday clothes
Street Water drainage at entrance
Rain from street level Concrete wall dampenned and damaged by
the rain water from street level
Street Level entrance
Hand wash basins and drainage Lightwell frm street sqr.
Basins walking/drain area
Entrance lobby Passage to basins facility passage

Alver Siza Pools, Porto
The visit to siza’s pools in porto inspired me work further on to propose
a local bath house. The challenges i thought about where storing water
for the baths and sequencing the spaces leading from one to another, e.g
enterance, changing room, and pools then back to changing rooms.
Sizas swimmmimg pools , the
pictures to left from an open
park area and the picture on the
right from the swimming pool
on the sea

Brief and Intended Users
A bath house that alllows the site to become more lively
again and alllow the peopele of porto to move back into
the district. The neighhbourhood currently is attracting
tourists for its history of wine houses. This bath house
on the other hand will allow the locals to use it in order
to faciliatate having a relaxig bath for both genders as
most houses in porto are very small and lack in havimg
bath spaces big enough for self comfort within a family
home. These bath facilties will be available to everyone.
The bath house exists of residential abandoned homes
which have become derelict. The use of residential spaces
in order to bring the people of porto back to stay will
also be inbedded in the new design above the bath house.
The chosen site will be divided into three parts to use the
space. A bath house on the lower ground floors alongside a
public pedestrian pathway that will enable the use for the
both public and private users to cross between parralell
streets. the higher levels will ocupied by the use of recid-
ency for the people of porto to dwell in.
Why?
Porto is known for its wine making and therfore very
industrial as its use, howver its image and landscape is a
collage from a distance. The abandoned houses came afetr
its port was moved to matsinious, more towards the sea.
This project aims to inhabit portos district areas and allow
a better lifestyle for the people who would return.
Intended Users:
Local community,, local old peoples homes, Couples residency
and Travellers, Local washhouse users.

Entrance / Reception
Water fall exposed at recpetion then
fallling into pools
Changing Rooms and
facilities
solid wall for privacy, then revealing
open space structure
Pools to swim
Steam room
Stairs to reveal initial
programme
Steam rising to outside also
exposed to rest room
Rest room from Reception
Intended Programmes
Inspired by the turn end model, a collage showing different types of
spacial programmms I could achieve in proposing a Bath House
Outline of space in Section

Alluminuim profiles for stud walls
Left: studying site, Right: Arrebita site
Windows showing details between sites
Arrebita ‘s Developing site ElevationSIte at starting construction phase
Sectional model proposed changes
Building materials
Roof Development at rear
Roof Development at Front
Supporting roof structure Roof beam settlement Roof beam settlement Roof beam alluminuim rafters
Party WallRoof Structure span
Scale 1:175
Site
Arrebita
Arrebita
Arrebita siteChosen site
Arrebita is a social entrepreneurship project with the mission to fight
the abandonment of inner Porto.
It is located next door to my chosen site, this gave me the advantage
to see how construction works were taking place for that area, and
which materials were suitable for the environment surrounding it.

Site Plan
Rua da Reboleira
Rua do infante. D Henrique
New Pathway -
Existing Pathway -
The benefit of having a street on each end of the site benefited me to join the
streets by a private/ public pathway. The pathway flows along the typography of
the city leading down towards the river allowing easier access between the streets
and adjoining the walking route.
The path itself is designed to be stepped up onto at ease with 3-4 walking steps
before reaching the next step.
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Main Programatic Plans
First Floor, 1, Residential
Scale- 1:100
Floor, 0.5, water tank systems
Scale- 1:100
Ground Floor, 0,
Pathway to program
Scale- 1:100
Basement Floor, -1, Baths
Scale- 1:100

Inhabited section
Scale 1:50
Inhabited Section
Scale- 1:50 at A1

Axonometric of Structural Elements
Throughout the building, vertical i beams will be supporting the structure where applica-
pable, especially where most of the concrete will be placed.
The longitude of my site allowed me to span acrross with steel beams and padstones to
transfer the weight down. the steel bems are mainly used to hold up conctrete floors
and the prefabricated staircases. Wooden Beams are then used on the residencial parts
of the building creating a lighter structure where needed
The longitude of my site allowed me to span acrross with steel beams and padstones to transfer the weight
the steel bems are mainly used to hold up conctrete floors and the prefabricated stair
Wooden Beams are then used on the residencial parts of the building creating a lighter structure where n
Scale- 1:75 at A1

Site Constraints
Scale 1-100
Site Constraints: narrow back street
site restricted to light exposure
Access for Builind Materials into site
Pathway precast to be delivered
Scale- 1:750
The main constraint that the site holds is a tight street on one end, (see
context map), therefore transporting materials on that south side may be
a little difficult despite the open green space that is located to the north
of the site that will help with easier circulation. If there are heavy ma-
chinery that the building contractor may use will have to be brought from
the north end to the south according to circumstances.
Another Constraint was to keep intact the facades and not to change
them, so according to the surrounding neighbourhood i changed the roof
join together within the building

Baths
The Bath house consists of two small baths at either end on the lower
ground floor. The occupied space creates an more open and spacius ex-
perience while bathing eventhough the site may be small.
Bath 1
Bath 2
Bath 1
Bath 2

Roof Terrace
The roof terrace is designed to overlook to the river duro on the
south of the site as well the opposite side of the river.
Another key feature is that you can look dwon onto the pathway
on site from the top giving an open surrounding of space.
Here the railing element is also used from the influence of turn end
project to keep the continuety flowing throughout the bath house.
The lower ground floor roof is also located high above here in
order to create a light well deep down, the element of glass with
timber joists is used to allow light to ray upon the roof all the way
down to the bath house.

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Light Partition design
The wall elements of glass and wood inspired from the turn end pro-
ject will be covereing most of my proposal in order to create partition
walls allowing light to enter spaces from one another as the light
constraints will be solved by these partitions.
15mm stained glass
2’x4’ partiton element
2’ x 4’ Timber Frame
3’ wood screw
Precast Concrete
254 x 102 x 28 I beam supported
by a padstone on each end sized
at 140 x 215 x 102, spanning ac-
cross 4metres

Foundation strategy
Scale 1:50
The foundations for my bath house will be underpinned from the
existing stone foundations and filled with concrete to allow the
dead loads and live loads to carry the new weight. All around
the site, the foundation will go 3m deep into the ground as my
building height is very large according the a small area of space.
Left: Southern foundation section, scale 1:50
Right Northen foundation section, scale 1:50

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