Get hot and sweaty in St Albans. Not yet, but it could happen if someone approaches Gap Filler and offers to host the Dino-Sauna on a vacant section.
Currently on the old Moda Fotografica site (corner Oxford and London Streets in Lytt-elton), it is open for public use on Saturday and Sunday evenings, overseen by locals who won’t be wearing blindfolds. This is a public sauna, so wear light clothing not birthday suits.
Built by Fabricio Fernandez, a Brazilian architect living in the city, this unique structure has been tried and tested. This event is supported by Gap Filler – who else would be crazy enough to try something like this?
Gapfiller is the name of the trust responsible for a number of temporary events on empty site, including bicycle-powered film shows, books in fridges, painted pianos and laundromat disco.
If you own some land and want to see it used creatively for a short period of if you have any fun or creative ideas that you want to see in place, contact GapFiller via their webpages and see what happens. It does not have to be the sauna, it could be something else that makes use of the St Albans terrain and history.
Put St Albans on the map. It’s rather devoid of official, unofficial Gapfiller activities. In fact, there hasn’t been a single one. St Albans, of course, has one of the original gapfillers, the community garden at Packe Street Park and that labyrinth in the carpark of the old swimming pool site, well that could have been one.
