In latin culture, water has always had an important place, making baths both curative and social. In Naples, water is a common good and its daily access must be rehabilitated because it constitutes human dignity in our contemporary western society. An also equally important component is shelter. As the city of Naples is one of the poorest in southern Italy, the number of people in precarious situations has increased in recent years and everyone is entitled to this comfort.

These public baths and refuge are located in one of the most central areas of Naples, thus the dignity of the most precarious is defended: they are part of society and part of the city, they do not have to be excluded visually and socially. This building is social in many ways. Architecture of dignity, how architecture serves the city, the neighborhood and the people.

The organization of the space is created by a building divided into three distinct entities. Although positioning as freestanding, their articulation is dictated by the shape of the plot, the territorial axes but also and above all the concept of fluid. The fluid induced by the water and the fluid induced by the crowd which enters, uses and leaves this project.