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Hornbæk Bathing House
A small striped bathing house for winter swimmers, built by its members over eleven weekends.
- Location
- Hornbæk, Denmark
- Year
- 2020
- Type
- Public
- Status
- Completed
- Area
- 64 m²
- Client
- Hornbæk Winter Bathers
- 1
Beach cabin stripes
The blue and white stripes of the old bathing cabins along this coast, repainted every spring.
- 2
One door to the sea
A single door faces the path to the water, so the warm air stays inside.
- 3
Clay tile roof
Reclaimed clay tiles from a farmhouse demolished down the road.
The project
How it came together
The winter bathers of Hornbæk had been changing behind a hedge for twenty years. They asked for a warm room, two showers and a place to hang wet towels, on a budget raised from bake sales and a local foundation.
The house is a simple timber box under a clay tile roof, painted in the blue and white stripes of the old beach cabins along this coast. A single door faces the path to the water, so the warm air stays inside on the coldest mornings.
It was built in eleven weekends by the members themselves, from drawings we prepared to be read by people who had never built anything before.
