Two years ago, a small architecture firm called goCstudio launched a Kickstarter campaign to turn an odd-seeming design into a reality.
It wanted to take the humble sauna and make it float on water so you could sweat and swim all in one fell swoop.
The campaign barely hit its crowdfunding goal — it made it with just $725 to spare. But on June 30, the American Institute of Architects named the firm's floating sauna, dubbed "wa_sauna," one of this year's four Small Project Award winners, due to its exciting design that cost less than $150,000 to bring to life.
You can store the sauna in a marina as you would a boat, or keep it docked near private property.
Of course, the best option is to just climb aboard.
Architects Jon Gentry and Aimée O'Carroll hatched the idea for wa_sauna, which gets its name from their home state of Washington, two years after founding goCstudio.
The duo loved the idea of building a dual-purpose object that could float on the water.
"As spring came, the project took on a life of its own," they wrote on their Kickstarter page. "Seattleites and the greater design community took hold of the project and published, blogged and re-blogged our concept images."
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