Skerry Baths

A timber deck, two pools held in the harbour, and a sauna that looks back at the city.

The site in Gothenburg set the terms before we drew anything. The harbour mouth is open water with a current. The bath is a floating frame moored to two piles.

Changing rooms and the sauna line the north side and shelter the pools from the wind.

We worked from a 1:50 model for most of the design stage and kept it on site through construction. Where the model and the drawings disagreed, the model usually won.