The bathing floor
Cold and warm water, stone underfoot, low light held at a constant through the day. The sequence is unguided; members keep their own time on the floor.
Spaces
Four floors, reduced
to their essentials.
Ro occupies a merchant's house of 1872, taken back to its structure and kept there. Lime plaster left as it dried. Oak, oiled rather than lacquered. Stone, water, and the northern light that arrives late and leaves slowly. Each floor holds one register of the day.
The long room
A single uninterrupted room the length of the building, kept deliberately under-furnished. Practice is held here in the mornings; the rest of the day it belongs to whoever needs the space to think.
The reading room
One chair to a window. A small collection of books that does not grow quickly. The quietest room in the house, and the most used.
The house is kept by the hours held within it.