Bathroom photos

Bathroom Layout

A rough visualization of the layout of my bathroom. I will upload all the images separately and in more depth.

Sketchup_Modelling my bathroom

I have started to model up my bathroom in Rolleston. I've also included little parts of the structure around it although currently it's still a shell - although this could be useful. I have started modelling on my parents PC because I can't get Sketchup to work on my laptop - I think it's to do with Safari not working and they need to work together. I've Googled the problems but I cant really make sense of it so i'll ask someone who knows.

The above image is a perspective of the bathroom room with the floor plan below it.

 

This is a plan of the structure I've created so far. It has top-plates, bottom-plates, studs, dwangs, lintels and jib. From the floor plan below you can see the location of the various products within my bathroom and the space is much smaller than I guessed it to roughly be! It's approx 5m2.

I've taken some photos of my bathroom which I will upload today.

Bathroom Details

Plans

Site Plan

Elevations

Site Plan

Floor Plan

Drainage Plan

Bathroom Specifications_30th June 2009

This is a scan of relevant Specifications for my home in Rolleston. I have only included pages that have materials used in the bathroom to inform my site analysis further.

The house is a 2009 Stonewood 'Lakeview' Eco Sure home. The Consent Plans which I have here are dated 04-08-09 and are the 3rd version. It was pretty much a generic Stonewood house design, with a few alterations to the design requested by my parents. In hind-sight, much more alterations could of been made and bettered the home in general.

Here is a link to the Eco Sure home inclusions fro today's Stonewood Eco homes. When we built our home we were supposed to be having Eco-friendly materials such as natural timbers instead of man-made - however when it came to building the interior our skirtings were MDF and Stonewood claimed to no longer offer Pine skirting (just an example).

Sunday 21st August_Diary Entry

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Film_21st August_1.36pm_Hair washing

My Bathroom Diary_thoughts...

I am continuing my bathroom diary - visually and textually - for now to see what more I can get out of it. I quite like the idea of keeping them for a month - especially the written diary.


The written diary has become a story of my use in the bathroom and I've become quite attached to it. The similarities between the bathroom and the diary, both being private, personal places - one for the physical and one for the mental - poses an interesting juxtaposition being published on the internet.

SITE_Rolleston, Canterbury

 

Site in relation to Christchurch and surrounding areas

 

Rolleston, Canterbury location plan. 

Both images are retrieved from Google maps.

I have officially decided that my site will be the bathroom I use whilst living at my parents house. Above are some rough location plans of Rolleston, Canterbury where my parents house is situated. The address of which is irrelevant and is not to be posted on the internet.

Regardless whether I take a pragmatic stance or a poetic stance on the bathroom, site will be important so I will start to model it up now. I intend to look over my previous work and reflect upon it to see how I visualize my work with fresh eyes instead of 'tunnel vision'. I will start on this tomorrow, it will be my first full day of study since friday.