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Nuclear Thermae

Part 1 Project 2018
Kurtis Gentry
University of Liverpool | UK
Nuclear Thermae explores how we build the infrastructure necessary to manage the 4.9 million tonnes of radioactive waste the UK will produce over the next 100 years. This project proposes the development of the Liverpool Festival Gardens site into a new bath house and lido for the city. This facility will be powered by a heat exchange process between spent radioactive fuel and fresh bathing water before the fuel is stored in a repository deep underneath the site.


Tutor(s)
2018
Project introduction.
Aerial perspective: bold concrete geometries merge with the surrounding parkland.
The bath house pools are warmed via a heat exchange between spent fuel and fresh bathing water.
Site plan and model photographs.
Parti diagrams: the entrance drum acts as a hinge from which the building is orientated to embrace the river.
Internal perspective of the courtyard spaces.
Lido section.
Bath house section.
Approach via boat from the River Mersey.
The building acts as fragment of parts unified in materiality and architectural language to form a great room in the city.
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