During my Architectural studies, i had the chance to be participate in a design studio from Steven Schenk and Johannes Berry. The studio was called ‘Structural contingencies’ where the students were challenged to let go of everything they knew about Architecture. 

The summary went as following;
‘With the wide acceptance of cartesian thought, the formalization of science, and the subsequent romanticism surrounding objective reality, we moderns have come to believe that we have changed our society and surroundings permanently. With this we have come to believe that we have separated or even freed ourselves, from our ancestors’ previously primitive or even ignorant ways of understanding and creating constructs of reality.
This attitude has given preference to the construction of systems that further abstract our relationship and understating of our surroundings, through the separation, in different ways, of politics, science, technology etc. from nature.
This studio is interested in revisiting pre-modern – innate to human – phenomena that migrates the thin line, or paradox, between culture and nature in creating constructs of reality, through architecture.’

I started this assignment of by focusing on lost senses, such as our smell. Through creating an off-grid sauna, that is made by a mixture of treated, and untreated materials, - I was able to design this volume where our smelling sense would be enhanced. The structure adapts to the seasons, and the usage of the sauna.