The River Brede runs parallel to the Bath House, separating it from the saltmarshes that stretch out towards the beach. In the next 50 years the sea will submerge all of this, as well as most of Rye’s outdoor public space.

This building adapts to take in and embrace incoming water from 2050 tidal flooding. This intake is filtered using hydro-botany, forming gardens that double up as a social space. Within maintenance the building monitors changing water conditions.

The structure responds to the return of Rye’s old coastline, using the view of the transitioning landscape to get inhabitants to question object permanence and anthropocentric views of buildings as ‘defying nature’.