Families and communities will gather in 190 degree heat and 5% - 20% humidity for day long celebrations of holidays and historically in some cases, to give birth and to prepare one’s body for death.
This ritual has a physical intensity, it is about extremes of fire and ice, illuminating discomfort in parallel with the act of sauna itself, this messes with our senses and perception by situating the user in a state of psychotropic alleviation.
The sauna ritual is synthesized with an industrial centrifugal fan to engage the user in a participatory experience of a larger geothermal infrastructural system.
