"first we shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us"

Architecture and Order; Approaches to Social Order.
Ch: Ordering the World: Perceptions of Architecture, Space and Time.
Michael Parker Pearson & Colin Richards.

P. 8 - routine.
P. 2 - 3 - Winston Churchill - "first we shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us."

Francis Bacon "Houses are built to live in and not to look on".

Requested Amos Rapport's House Form and Culture.

Books that arrived today in the post:

Purity & Danger - Mary Douglas
Design Your Life - Ellen & Julia Lupton
in praise of shadows - Junichiro Tanizaki
Bathroom Unplugged - Hebel & Stollmann (again)
Architecture - The Subject is Matter - Jonathan Hill
Occupying Architecture: Between the architect and the user - Jonathan Hill

Google searching from today...Ebb Bathroom/Vertibrae Bathroom

Ebb Bathroom - made from LG HI-MACS - ribbon of joined products - almost like one product - still disjointed from space though. Quite beautiful. Could be better if it took into consideration personal rituals and routines to influence the shape and layout of design. It does look like it can be reconfigured in multiple ways however.

Bath and Shower Image (above)

Sink and Bathtub Image (above)

Sink and Bathtub Image (B/W above)

Vertibrae bathroom

 

Vertebrae Vertical Bathroom

"Swiss Army Knife Bathroom" takes space conservation to a whole new level, packing a toilet, sink, cistern, two storage units and two shower heads into one compact system. Named for its resemblance to the spinal cord, the bathroom's modules all connect to a central axis. Everything feeds from the top of the structure, which attaches to the ceiling. Users have the option of directing the waste pipes downward through a hole in the floor, or into the wall through a hole at the back of the toilet. To enable shower drainage, the Vertebrae must be installed in a sealed wet room with adequate slope to the floor, according to the brochure. Nice idea of the connection between various bathroom products, this time through plumbing.

Shower Series

OPEN (magazine)

Nice over view of Paiement's work. Take note of "Shower Series" and google.

> not much on Shower Series on the internet, looked in Massey Library and nothing either, and no Bonus+. Found an article called Tangent E, but can't locate yet.

Alain Paiement "Lio"

Alain Paiement. (2003). Lio. Archival ink jet prints, semi-matte paper; mounted on dibond (aluminium-plastic material). Exhibited: Mattieu Foss Gallery; Mumbai.

Image retrieved from here. 

This image strikes me the most out of Paiement's four bathing images in his Surfacing Over There exhibition in Mumbai, 2011. It strikes me because the perspective highlights the size of the shower space to in comparison to the size of the body that has to shower within it. The shower gel - in it's own small storage shelf - looks better fitting on its shelf than the body does to the shower.

The relationship between the body and the shower head being held is also quite awkward, the direction of the body in comparison to where the shower head is hung differs in direction - this demonstrates to me that thought as to where the shower head would go for this person hasn't been considered on a personal basis, and is the result of being manufactured and mass-produced. On a similar note, the body is facing away from the shelves (top right of the image) - is this choice or is the body forced to stand in this way?

Alain Paiement: Surfacing Over There

Alain Paiement: Surfacing Over There - Mattieu Foss Gallery

Series of photographs taken from bird's eye perspective, displayed at the Matthieu Foss Gallery, Mumbai, March - April 2011.

One Small Window - Surfacing Over There

Link from JP