Designer becomes the interface between space and product.
Self-realization – not for everyone, it’s about including the spiritual/ritualistic aspects of the bathroom into it’s design.
Standard bathrooms reduce/eliminate designers responsibility to respond to individual circumstances.
A type of design that only comes from designing for yourself or for someone else in an intimate way.
Not dissing but establishing another way. Opportunites not in design now because…
Eczema is a layer of me, everyone has these layers. How can my own circumstances inform the greater good? How does it relate to the wider world?
Eczema colours what I see a bathroom is/as, but also colours how I design it.
Jonathan Hill “user”
Anthropometry – Adamant takes into consideration time based, specific, gesture, thinking through – Rod.
Analysing – not rage.
Mirror to see why it’s there but see beyond it. Allows a stepping stone.
2 layers of non-designing. Didn’t design house, not bathroom, nor products within.
Argument fills in gap. As I go on, notice how BR organised, how things are designed and do not respond to body.
Responding to product design developer housing.
Reflect, Test is against stuff already done.
Fuel to use to secure meta-concern (speaks to wider world).
Absenceyet emergence of meta-question + design. List meta-concerns, say value.
Send drafts of sentence to JP – emerge minor + major concerns.
Monday, 19 September 2011
Re-designing the bathroom_Iteration 2.2 & 2.3
Iteration 2.2
The bath has become a small vessel at the end of the progression through the bathroom. Now, because of the size of the sink, the shower and the bath are both on the outside of the existing structure.
A view from the outside of the existing bathroom, showing shower and bath on the outside of the existing structure.
Plan view showing size of sink, shower and bath.
Progression from largest segment of time (sink) to smallest (bath).
And again, from the outside of existing structure.
Iteration 2.3
Reducing the width of the sink so the progression from sink to bath is possible without leaving the red surface area.
A view from the outside of the existing structure - as you can see the outside remains unchanged.
The width of the sink has been reduced in half.
Overall view of the bathroom from the outside - what was private is now public having penetrated the existing structure.
Idea for Iteration 2 development_sketch
Just a quick sketch to show what I mean by duration and size of sink etc.
Re-designing the bathroom_Iteration 2
Beginning to create the progressive bathroom based on the Bathroom Diary and duration spent within the bathroom. Shows how design would have to penetrate existing structure.
Plan view of new intervention - progression from sink to shower to bath - only diagrammatic at present.
Perspective view of proposed design in diagram form.
Ideas I have had which will follow on from this:
Duration dictates size of sink, bath, shower etc. Bath smallest, sink largest.
Create a ribbon.
WQould like it to be a progression - walk through the sink to the shower and further to the bath etc.
Re-designing the bathroom_Iteration 1
Translating the movement diagrams into a 3-dimensional space.
Working drawings showing progress of the space formation. Work in progress.
Below and above, demonstrating the space formation in relation to the existing bathroom. This shows the areas of my bathroom I used over a week-long period.
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