The project suggests the reuse of the Newtown Tram Depot into a public bath house where water is used as a phenomenological resource to humanise the scale of industriality and re-establish the relationship between architecture and the body. The building is beckoned to receive stillness, embrace presence, and wrap intimacy into expansive industrial space through droplets, steam, light, and breath. What follows is the story of this transformation, from steel to stillness, from machine hall to sanctuary, from function to presence. A reawakening begins not with force, but with a ripple, small, deliberate, inevitable.


This building is not a ruin. 
Ruins decay. Ruins crumble. 
Ruins we love because we pity.
But this — this is endurance. 
This is waiting. This is strength paused.
The depot is not lost to memory. 

It makes his spine stand, Its brick arms are extended, its steel ribs are erect. 
It does not plead to be saved.