The Bath Room 2: 08/31/11

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

Starting to play around with overlaying the two Movement Diagrams I've already done. Overlaying information - thinking about density (high density = high use etc.), thinking about what parts of the room I use more often than others and thinking about what I do most often in the bathroom - look in the mirror. Duration - duration of time spent looking in the mirror, brushing my teeth, showering etc. Also layering the actions that take place within the bathroom.

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.

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

_Diagramming. - Have started diagramming movement - Rediscovering the bathroom.

_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.

The Bath Room 2

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