Water Phenomenological Approach

At this point I started looking into the element of 'water' from different 'angles' and collected a number of interesting facts that involve its physical form as well as water as an essence. From one point of view, water could be could be considered as source of life, whereas looking at it from a different scope, water is where we live for the first nine months of our lives. Apart from that 70-90% of cells's weight of our body are made of water. Moreover, in religion water through baptism symbolized the return back to the nature, the contact with the ground and through this you have the rebirth and the clearance of the soul. 

As a consequence of the above I found the idea of birth in water as a normal sequence of the water's importance as source of life

COLLAGE

In order to further explore and to demonstrate graphically and architecturally my thoughts, I made a collage showing how the hand and the body experience the ground and water coming out from it and how a pregnant woman through her body and senses feel and conceive it. by this way you feel the breathing of earth as Steven Holl and Pallasmaa said. 

MODEL

I made this model in order to demonstrate the way I approach the element of water and its flow in relation to the problem of teenage pregnancy. What it actually represents is the way water is getting out of the earth, respectively as the baby  is delivered into the world, and then it is split into channels articulating the spaces and the different stages of pregnancy. the dead ends of some channels on the model represent the dead end the teenagers face when they learn that they are pregnant and their only solution to keep the baby and go on. They don't think about their alternative solutions.

View from a digital model representing the idea with the channels and how these create dead-ends, pools, corridors and spaces in between.

 more closed view of the digital model

How the model is working. It has two holes (representing the boreholes); the first one extracts water anf fill the channels, and when the water makes its circle goes back from the second hole. This is a continuous action.