Life Foundation

Life Foundation, non-profit organisation for AIDS research, 2001.

Like an aluminium profile, raised on its one end, the bathhouse stands solid and monolithic. The interior space is more of a cavity than a container. Although clear and precise in the bright summer light, the bathhouse disappears in reflections. Engraved on the outside walls one can read the words of the Italian artist Alghiero Boetti.

“As a plant grows, so a quartz rock also grows in a cave, and a stone in the Sahara at night can split apart in two and start running, rolling away”