The project proposes a liminal device which, through the architecture, concretizes an affirmation of life, a 'Will to Power' of a community in search of identity. This device derives its form the 'Eternal Feminine', the “divine eternal mystery”, the good, the pure and the true, which is collected, harnessed, and subsequently moves through the device. The interchanging animation between the will to power/identity/ and the enveloped eternal feminine becomes the architecture. The event is the interstitial relation between. The Eternal Feminine is expressed through relating the purification of mountain water, which is collected, used and dispersed form the transitional device, with programmatic events that allows for a metaphysical cleansing and purification. The ‘will to power’ is concretised in the architecture expressing the counterparts of the eternal feminine; thinking, feeling and willing i.e. the soul.
The programs that animate the architecture are associated with cleansing, purification, wisdom and love. The device, located along the highest corridor on the face of the mountain allows for a formalised platform for an urban surveillance. The communal washing/cleansing/purification facility bestows the responsibility of moral guardian upon the user (which is commonly the woman of the community). It also facilitates religious and ceremonial rituals of the community as the mountain is seen as a transcendental device between earth and the heavens. The architecture acts as a system for generating relations not only with physical environment, but with metaphysical and transcendental environment. The device acquires a veil of significance through the articulation and the metaphysical connotation the community makes with the water origin that services their immanent needs.
