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a blanket over their knees, or by going back to their centrally heated homes. Smyth is excited by the challenges of
making the bathhouse work during colder months. ‘We will change the character of the spa. We will put a fi re pit in the gravel bays and hot drinks will be available.’ Some extra insulation will be necessary, especially in the sauna and the store rooms, which currently has no insulation in the ceiling. ‘We need to take measures to ensure that people don’t pop down to Argos to buy a heater if it gets too cold,’ says Smyth. Smyth says being a temporary project on
such a tight budget has allowed Somebody & Son to be more experimental. ‘We’re not having to design to guides. A temporary project gives you a bit more room to play.’ ‘We have returned to the days before affordable electricity, where straw bales were used to insulate rooms fi lled with large blocks of ice.’ With his Passivhaus background and restrictive budget, it’s not a surprise to hear that Somebody & Son had ‘taken a light touch to building services.’ But Smyth says there were services he would have considered, if he had the funds.
A fi re pit will be built into the gravel bays area during ‘winter mode’
He would have liked to have recovered the heat from the chiller unit to use elsewhere and would have experimented with a mechanical ventilation heat recovery system for the ice room. Solar thermal panels and a rainwater system were high on the wish list. The bathhouse is part of the cultural Olympiad. It was originally supported by the Arts Council, but now pays for itself. ‘It started with a grant but it’s currently a going concern. We are always keen to design a business as well as a space,’ says Smyth. Somebody & Son’s services strategy is
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