Audrey Tseng de Melo Fischer

● Researching
▲ Designing
■ Writing
◆ Speaking

curriculum vitae
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▲ ■ Mist

designed at University of Waterloo (2018)

Link the the book

A proposal for an onsen in Hokkaido draws from the heritage of Japanese landscape paintings and Zen Buddhism to reimagine the traditionally binary relationship between land and water, architecture and moisture. The ground offers warmth, water, and a place to find balance—a space to experience touch. This ephemerality embodies phenomenology, inviting one to see, smell, taste, and listen. The Oyunuma Mist Onsen expresses the experience of mist, which can be interpreted in many ways: as dryness, collection, condensation, evaporation, suspension, and reflection. These expressions of mist are fleeting—ephemeral yet grounded in one’s own sensory and spatial experience.

DRY / accomodations

COLLECTIONS / shower & laundry

CONDENSATION / greenhouse

EVAPORATION / teahouse

SUSPENSION / kitchen & lounge

REFLECTION / entrance

MIST / onsen