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
20110920
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.
Vertibrae 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.
Vertibrae bathroom
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