[NO]PROGRAM

FINALIST of London Urban Retreat: Haggerston Public Baths

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London Urban Retreat: Haggerston Public Baths

[20334]

[NO]PROGRAM: Urban Scenography

Team

Name: TOM CONSTANTINIDES

Instagram: @tom_nies

Nationality: french

Institution: École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Grenoble

Name: AXIME DULAC

Instagram: @max_dlc__

Nationality: french

Institution: École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Grenoble

Name: MARGAUX WALTZ

Instagram: @margaux_wltz

Nationality: french

Institution: École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Grenoble

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The floor extends, revealing a passageway in this building. A bare floor plan, without furniture, indicates a direction.

Nothing is planned, nothing is forbidden, everything is temporary. Within this building lies the memory of an old pool, where a slab, a passageway, takes shape, where people come publicly. The non-program begins here, with this total openness to the rest of the city, this porosity that allows individuals to breathe. 

Beyond this suspended slab are spaces, more or less intimate, promoting the existing structure as support for movement. There are fragments, planks, ropes and fabrics, remnants of construction sites and light.Standardized elements and a uniform structure harmonize the entire building. Everyone enters and acts. We assemble, we tie, we wedge. A seat appears, a table, a light shelter. The furniture does not take shape, but is constructed according to need. This is how well-being appears, by responding to everyone’s needs. As we wander through the space, the place changes scale, the space becomes narrower, quieter, and more intimate. The space is fluid, the result of the relationship between body and matter. Well-being arises from these appropriable spaces, from all the possibilities without constraints, from this freedom in diversity. 

When the sky darkens, the structures are dismantled and crystallized. The ground regains its calm, but retains the memory of passages, the traces of those who, at one moment, left their mark with their gestures and felt rested in their appropriated spaces.

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Jury Comments

– Pablo Castillo

The project No Program proposes a contemporary intervention within a pre-existing building, grounded in a clear understanding of the site’s present needs and a rational use of materials. It neither seeks to blend in nor to impose a new environment, but rather to adapt and evolve over time. Its careful attention to the lifespan, availability, and economy of materials reflects a bold approach to sustainability, making the project both precise and measured while still having a strong impact on the site. The outstanding quality of the materials presented to the competition—physical model, drawings, and images—further reinforces the project’s credibility and demonstrates its feasibility.

– Josefine Fokdal

No program says it all. A poetic approach however it needs a program to function.