The project provides a bath house and a natural swimming lido for the old quarter of Goole, Yorkshire, whilst trying to explore the relationship between the earth and water the town precariously survives on.

The building tries to echo the long and embedded histories of the site, the cuttings and vertical drama within the building recalling the expressiveness of the neolothic earthworks that litter the surrounding landscape of Yorkshire. More recently, the town saw further movements of earth and water with the Dutch engineer Cornelius Vermuyden in the 18th century, who drained the land and pulled Goole from the bottom of the boggy marshes. For years after, incredible amounts of coal were transported through the mouth of Goole along the canals, feeding the rest of northern England.

Earth is deeply affixed in the taskscape of this place, and the bath house is formed from the site, the bricks cut from rich clays excavated from the ground and fired there. The programme of spaces pull one into the cut ground, the interior pool placed low beneath the surface and the intersecting brick vaults. The interior spaces of the bath house are meant to be slow, the architecture heavy and firmly rooted into its setting.