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The Baths for Queer Defense and [De]liberation

PrizeHonorable Mention in Architectural Design / Other Architecture
University/SchoolUniversity of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, School of Architecture
Lead ArchitectReily Joel Calderón Rivera

Located in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, the project confronts institutions with a history of aggression against the LGBTQ+ community. This project confronts its context with a peripheral wall that exhibits pieces of urinals on its façade. Within this wall, deliberation and relaxation pools, bathrooms, jacuzzis, showers and nooks for gender performativities coexist. A tower is erected to seek and fight transphobic posts on social media. This project responds to a research problematizing transphobia about inclusive baths at University of Puerto Rico and spatialize other ways of living gender.