JAAA Kallis Sea Bath

In the past few years, the local council in Helsingborg has undertaken a number of urban reinforcements on the waterfront, the last project being a wooden deck promenade stretching from the old port to the site of Kallis, the old sea bath in the north. From Kallis onwards, the sandy beach stretches north to the woods.
The local council now wishes to finish the promenade in integrating the sea baths and refurbishing the whole site as well as regenerating the bathing buildings with saunas and cold baths.
The project has a homogenous as well as joyful design, prolonging the promenade deck, playing with different heights and steps down to the water, some of which are existing, accentuating the flow between sandy dunes and pine acting as the 'spine' of the project, and the wooden promenade.
The project proposal takes into account and reinforces the existing qualities of the site; sand, dunes, concrete steps down to the water, the wooden promenade and the closeness to the sea as well as the strong horizon.
The buildings are luxurious though simple and modernistic in their gesture, exposing different degrees of transparency, letting the maximum of light and view into the buildings. The saunas, being the attraction of the Swedish bathing culture, are placed at the outmost point of the site, giving each of them a 180° view of the sea, the passing ships and the shifting colours of the sky.