Endrit Sadiku

advisor

University for Business and Technology - UBT

Kosovar

Endrit Sadiku is an architect, urbanist, and researcher specializing in urban resilience,… more

Dear Ivan and Elizaweta,

Your project presents a compelling and rigorous architectural response to the question of memory, presence, and renewal. The decision to restore the ruins of the city baths in Vyshny Volochok and reinterpret them as part of a new civic program demonstrates a careful reading of both site and history.

The integration of the existing facade wall into the experience of the swimming pool is a particularly powerful move. It invites the user to confront material traces of the past not as a backdrop but as an active, inhabited threshold. The reuse of the historical chimney and its transformation into a vertical ritual space is equally strong, reasserting continuity without nostalgia.

The architectural language of the new intervention is restrained and deliberate. The layered glass facade offers a balance between privacy and openness while maintaining a formal clarity that complements the ruin rather than competing with it. The use of repetition and shadow in your renderings communicates this atmosphere well.

Your conceptual diagrams and spatial analysis are legible and well-composed. However, further exploration of the experiential dimension would strengthen the project in particular, how users move through light, temperature, sound, and moisture within the space. These are crucial elements in a program so deeply tied to the body and to ritual.

This is a mature and confident proposal. It demonstrates an understanding of how architecture can operate simultaneously in the temporal, material, and symbolic registers. I encourage you to continue pushing this kind of work, where form, history, and experience are brought into meaningful dialogue.