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Louis Kahn + Anne Tyng | Trenton bath house, 1955

The Bath House design is a pavilion in the shape of a Greek cross composed of four squares.

Kahn considered each square volume a room even though none of the rooms were completely enclosed. On June 7, 1955 Kahn made an entry in his notebook on a page titled the “Palladian Plan” where he began talking about the modernist principle of the open plan:

“I have discovered what everyone else has found [,] that a bay system is a room system.

A room is defined by space defined by the way it is made.

By the way it gets a roof or ceiling and has its walls separate it from the rest of the spaces.

In a system of bays not intended as rooms [,] the rooms however do still exist [,] though it may not have the walls to define it.” Via 1

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