more overlaying - 18th, 19th and 21st
22nd August
23rd August
Another overlayed image. 18th, 19th, 21st, 22nd and 23rd August
Friday, 2 September 2011
Linear Diagrams_Time/Body Parts. Overlayed 18th, 19th & 21st
Green 19th
Lime 18th & 19th
Blue 21st
Linear Diagrams_Time/Body Parts. 21st August
Linear Diagrams_Time/Body Parts. Overlayed 18th & 19th
Green 19th
Lime both
...just to give an idea of how this can be used...
Linear Diagrams_Time/Body Parts. 19th August
Linear Diagrams_Time/Body Parts. 18th August
Diagramming in other ways to inform design development. These diagrams will aid me in knowing what parts of my body are taken care of, or paid most attention to, in the bathroom.
The Apartment - Georges Perec [+ Lorna's notes]
Scans of Georges Perec's The Apartment in Species of Spaces... I tried to scan in my post-it notes of comments but it wasnt working so I've re-typed them on top.
My notebook.
Rough modelling - boxes, or pieces of paper which can be assembled and reassembled in a variety of configurations for design exploration.
More time analysis of the diary. Using each day in 24hour table showing different types of information.
The top one (above) is Time/Product - so dividing the use of a particular product (mentioned in the diary) into time slots according to when it was used. This will aid the positioning and reconfiguration of objects in the bathroom.
The second (above again) is Time/Action and is dividing the actions performed within the bathroom into 24hour time slots. The bathroom could be redesigned through actions, what occurs most regularly and rarely etc.
The last (below) is Time/Body Part, which looks at particular body parts and how often they are paid attention to in the bathroom.
Supervision w/ Ant, 9.30am
Diagrams_starting to look good. Take more care - process, craft. > Think about other dimensions/other views as only in plan.
Set up layers in Photoshop [potentially illustrator (test)] - animation palette, layers build up. Shows duration, time, action etc.
- Could be diagram for each time I enter the bathroom as opposed to daily diagrams I've done so far. Build up layers in P/shop still. Time.
Like the Perec drawing - big list of stuff.
CRIT_think about what I want to present and what I NEED to present - could be very different things.
Figure out what I need. Have a strong direction now. Need to be able to explain what I've done since last crit - animations will help.
Think about how do I visualize my diary? Whats going on in it? Quick way of analyzing space.
WHAT HOW WHY - start to locate my work.
Ask JP if there are any diffs between when Laura Ford did her MDes to mine - what are they? - Looking at structure and it was helpful.
Be decisive! Decide what I want to do. "This is what I want to do because of...".
Once I have located myself need to see design explorations/investigations. Response to what I have done/previous studies.
THESIS DOCUMENT/SKETCH ESSAY - already on to-do list for today to structure it. Look at previous versions, see what I have done, if it needs included or not. Adapt to project now and it will clarify my direction. Once I've done the structure send through to JP/Ant (Ant on leave so send to JP and ask to comment).
Come up with strategy or process - will help me with design aspect. Diagrams are starting to do this but need to be more detailed/rigorous - width lacking, overlay width of body etc. Circles are center of body but moves to hand which is weird. Come up with system for different things - line for movement, dashed line for hand. Colour to differentiate time.
Line in Illustrator, export to Photoshop > animation. TEST before spending hours doing something that might not work. Get the workflow going today.
Exploded AXO in Sketchup? Components, reshuffle them (design explorations?). Overlay with photos, drawings. Movement diagrams - start to show me and my diaryness. Move things around.
Could be Photoshop to PPT - shows progression/animation. Shows how its built up - 50 slides showing layers.
Design_later today bust out some work. Quick charettes. Half a dozen takes on the bathroom/my bathroom. Then I have 'stuff'. "Here's some design approaches but it doesn't work because...". Even do a couple of models. Paper. Moving things around.
Set up a few models. Duration - reconfigure bathroom. Frequently used. Different uses. Reasons for being in bathroom - brushing teeth etc.
Skype later.
Reshuffle the bathroom.
Set up layers in Photoshop [potentially illustrator (test)] - animation palette, layers build up. Shows duration, time, action etc.
- Could be diagram for each time I enter the bathroom as opposed to daily diagrams I've done so far. Build up layers in P/shop still. Time.
Like the Perec drawing - big list of stuff.
CRIT_think about what I want to present and what I NEED to present - could be very different things.
Figure out what I need. Have a strong direction now. Need to be able to explain what I've done since last crit - animations will help.
Think about how do I visualize my diary? Whats going on in it? Quick way of analyzing space.
WHAT HOW WHY - start to locate my work.
Ask JP if there are any diffs between when Laura Ford did her MDes to mine - what are they? - Looking at structure and it was helpful.
Be decisive! Decide what I want to do. "This is what I want to do because of...".
Once I have located myself need to see design explorations/investigations. Response to what I have done/previous studies.
THESIS DOCUMENT/SKETCH ESSAY - already on to-do list for today to structure it. Look at previous versions, see what I have done, if it needs included or not. Adapt to project now and it will clarify my direction. Once I've done the structure send through to JP/Ant (Ant on leave so send to JP and ask to comment).
Come up with strategy or process - will help me with design aspect. Diagrams are starting to do this but need to be more detailed/rigorous - width lacking, overlay width of body etc. Circles are center of body but moves to hand which is weird. Come up with system for different things - line for movement, dashed line for hand. Colour to differentiate time.
Line in Illustrator, export to Photoshop > animation. TEST before spending hours doing something that might not work. Get the workflow going today.
Exploded AXO in Sketchup? Components, reshuffle them (design explorations?). Overlay with photos, drawings. Movement diagrams - start to show me and my diaryness. Move things around.
Could be Photoshop to PPT - shows progression/animation. Shows how its built up - 50 slides showing layers.
Design_later today bust out some work. Quick charettes. Half a dozen takes on the bathroom/my bathroom. Then I have 'stuff'. "Here's some design approaches but it doesn't work because...". Even do a couple of models. Paper. Moving things around.
Set up a few models. Duration - reconfigure bathroom. Frequently used. Different uses. Reasons for being in bathroom - brushing teeth etc.
Skype later.
Reshuffle the bathroom.
Thursday, 1 September 2011
Film_31st August_Shower
This film is of the action/movement of showering through the lens of the shower's glass partition.
(18th & 19th) Overlaying Movement Diagrams
Laura Ford's Thesis_some notes
"In spatial design, the treatment of surface is part of the experience of a design on a grander scale, like walls, ceilings and floors that give us enclosures and places to perform different rituals.2" Laura Ford, Surface built : making the New Zealand home : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Design in Spatial Design at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand. Retrieved from http://muir.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/1523 on Thursday September 1, 2011.
2 Graeme Brooker and Sally Stone.“From Organisation to Decoration.” In Thinking inside the Box: A Reader in Interior Design for the 21st Century, edited by Scotland Interiors Forum, 125-32. London: Middlesex University Press, 2007., 126.
Quote from Laura Fords Thesis Foreword P. 2. The use of the word 'ritual' - have a look at footnote "From Organisation to Decoration". Requested "Thinking Inside the Box".
P. 3, nice way of addressing shift in focus.
2 Graeme Brooker and Sally Stone.“From Organisation to Decoration.” In Thinking inside the Box: A Reader in Interior Design for the 21st Century, edited by Scotland Interiors Forum, 125-32. London: Middlesex University Press, 2007., 126.
Quote from Laura Fords Thesis Foreword P. 2. The use of the word 'ritual' - have a look at footnote "From Organisation to Decoration". Requested "Thinking Inside the Box".
P. 3, nice way of addressing shift in focus.
Film_31st August_Pre-shower
Once again the composition is the same as before, I wanted to focus on the sound of my pre-shower rituals. The camera is siting on the outside of the shower, pressed against the glass partition between bathroom and shower. The idea is to use the products at the lens through which the bathroom, or actions within the bathroom, are perceived. The visuals of the film become more effective during the act of showering when the heat, steam and water collide with the glass.
Film_31st August_Cleaning the bath
The composition of this film is the same as cleaning the shower, but is more focused on the sound.
In response to Supervision notes dated 19.08.11
Supervision notes
_Analysis informing several design exercises. - Working on. Unsure.
_Seminars - reading that had analysis of movements/diary - look back on. - Pedgley - "Capturing and analysing(sp?) own design activity"
_Site. Rolleston. Modelled up. Site information gathered.
_Title. Theorize tailor-made. Could be tailor-made physically, or tailor-made through my experience?
_NZ housing. Lots to work with - inform my direction.
Communicate to audience what the house is. Describe house. "2009 NZ Stonewood house." Built by...designed by...
- Have found out as much as I can about the design of my house from what we have available - paying particular attention to the bathroom.
_Pragmatic - Pre-Chch design exercises. Height of faucet for me etc. Remember, things extend from the bathroom - hot water cylinder, pipes, laundry etc. Think beyond the surface - lining, glue, 'stuff'. Redesigning the current bathroom 'tailor-made' to personal body shape, size etc.
_Poetic - Post-Chch design exercises. Particularly film of feet through tiles - my relationship to my NZ home. Video, soundscape, sensual, provocative. Documenting the NZ bathroom actions, movements - relationship to body through film.
_Reflect upon what I have done so far. View it for all it's worth, in other ways and think about how it informs my project and my projects direction.
- Initial Films - personal actions in the bathroom.
- Movement Drawings - life-sized. Capturing my experience of the bathroom, that I am always moving. Captures specific moments in the shower and bath.
- Movement Drawings 2 - life-sized. Trying to draw myself while I reenact the act of showering and bathing. Impossible to capture the still moment - only in that position for a split second, then move.
- Movement Drawings Films - capturing the act of trying to reenact bathing or showering and projecting it, then drawing it onto paper.
- Digital 3d 'Bath-Room' - 3d space constructed from the movements I make in the bathroom. (3 iterations)
- Diary - Written rigorous documentation of what I do in the bathroom. (About 3 weeks worth of diary entries to date).
- Film Diary - Visual documentation of what I do in the bathroom. Composition reflects the body onto the architecture and products highlighting my movement through the bathroom room. (Various iterations).
- Sound Diary - Auditory documentation of what I do in the bathroom. Individual sounds from when I am in the bathroom - when the bathroom is functioning. (Various iterations).
- Photographs of Body & Bathroom - photographs taken after having a shower and looking at the state of the shower as a consequence of using the product. The subconscious drawings the body creates on the shower.
More in-depth reflection needed. Rough summary only.
_Laura Ford's thesis. Look online. Few chapters I'd like on bathroom, surface, domestic house etc. Downloaded and browsed quickly through.
_Re-model my current bathroom - 2 iterations of the same design or different methods. 2 pragmatic // 1 pragmatic, 1 poetic // 2 poetic. Think about the 2 different directions my project could take.
Wednesday, 31 August 2011
Images_my bathroom as a result of my body
A series of images taken today after having a shower. The images are mainly of the glass structure - the shower - and the stream/drips/watermarks left on it after my presence in the shower - after me using the shower to shower. The steam/drips/watermarks are a unintentional drawing on the relationship between my body and the shower during the act of showering. The splashes made by myself during showering/washing/combing/shampooing/conditioning/scratching/turning on/turning off/adjusting/shaving/lifting/bending hit the steamed up glass partition and create a drawing of the consequence of movement - the consequence of using the shower for it's intended purpose.
The actions and movements I do when I shower very depending on what I enter the bathroom to do. If I have a bath, chances are I won't leave any marks on the shower. If I shower, wash myself and not my hair, I will leave washing/scrubbing/rinsing marks on the shower cubicle - visible from the inside and out. If I shower myself and wash my hair, I will leave completely different marks - or traces that my body has been there - on the shower. In fact, every time I shower the markings I create will be completely different - as unique to me as my fingerprints - and created as a consequence of movement, ritual, routine and actions within the shower.
Outside of shower, just after having a shower.
My reflection in the shower door - reflected on steamed, splashed glass
The shower from outside of the shower looking in at the mechanics of it. My drawing exposes or hides parts of the shower - this is a consequence of me using the shower - a result of inhabitation. A result of body does action uses product meets material.
And again.
Inside the shower, just after having a shower.
Looking out at the bathroom through the splatter/splash/watermarks on the shower glass.
And again.
The drips on the soap holder are a result of my presence in the shower.
The splatter marks created by my body - a visual of the body and product colliding.
And again.
Towards the top of the shower glass less splashes are visible - would a taller person splash the whole shower? Would an even smaller person splash even less? The splash marks are unique to my body.
The floor outside the shower, after stepping out of the shower.
Stepping out of the shower door and onto the bathmat, the transition between shower and floor is splattered with drips from my body as it moves through the door way and places each foot on the floor outside before reaching the bathmat. Then closing the door behind me.
Friday 19th August_Movement Diagram
The circles represent when my body was fixed at a point for a varied pause of time. I have used dotted lines to represent lines of sight when I looked in the mirror.
This is the second movement diagram I have created which can be compared to Thursday 18th August's movement diagram, overlayed and used as a visual tool to drive the design of my bathroom.
The drawings are personal to my movement and actions within the bathroom, tailor-made to how I negotiate my existing bathroom and give the viewer insight into the way way I inhabit my own personal space.
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