Lorna Smith _ CRIT 2 

THE BATH ROOM

What I would like to present to you today is my blog. I’ve been working on it since I moved back to Christchurch to live with my parents shortly after Symposium in July. 

To the right of this blog you will see a cloud of tags that will link you to various blog posts important to my project and it’s development. The larger the text, the more vital the key word is to my project. This is a prompt for you to find out what you would like to know about The Bath Room project and gain a greater understanding of my research project. 

A brief summary of my research project to date has investigated notions of ritual (done for the joy, experience) and routine (everyday activities in society) within the domestic bathroom. Examination and analysis of my body and my individual movements, actions, rituals, routines and duration within my bathroom highlighted a detachment between bathroom-space, bathroom-product and bathroom-user. This research seeks to establish an alternative, intimate, personalized, method of designing the bathroom where the body becomes the facilitator for reconnecting space and product, and test the boundaries, forms, aesthetics and functions of what is commonly understood to be a domestic bathroom.

Since Symposium, my work was developed through writing and keeping a bathroom diary. This has been used to inform my practice-led research for design, and became a reflective device for me to recall my time within my bathroom. The diary translated various movements and experiences I wrote about into diagrams and data tables which in turn informed my design work.

My existing bathroom at my parent's house became site. To date I have attempted to reconfigure my existing bathroom, and design experiments from the data I collected in my bathroom diary. I would like to take you through these and get feedback from them.

Depth

Re-designing the Bathroom - Iteration 9

 Beginning to think about the different spaces within the bathroom in terms of amount of time spent within it relating to it's size. Still has the progression from most used to least used for me personally, but I have started to re-size the bathroom to be the smallest space, and the sink to be the largest - since it is where I spend most of my bathroom time. The shower space is a mid-size between the shower and sink.

 (above x 1 and below x 3) Elevations. Sink (aqua), shower (green) and bath (pink).

 Perspective view of Iteration 9, the differences in size between the spaces of the bathroom are evident.

Plan view of Iteration 9, with the entrance into the bathroom closest to the viewer. Once again, the sizes of the bathroom make evident the amount of time spent in each space.

Summary of Iterations to date

 Iteration 1

 Iteration 2

 Iteration 2.2 

Iteration 2.3

 Iteration 3

 Iteration 3

 Iteration 4.1

 Iteration 4.2

 Iteration 5

 Iteration 6

 Iteration 7

Iteration 8

Re-designing the bathroom - Iteration 8

 

Plan view of Iteration 8.

 (above x 1 and above x 3) Elevations of Iteration 8.

 Perspective view of whole form.

 Plan view of Iteration 8, with Entry closest to the viewer. Progression from sink (aqua) to shower (green) to bath (pink) is evident. I've also tried to take into consideration privacy, with the shower and bath becoming cocoons of personal space.

Labeled plan of Iteration 8. Highlights the different spaces and relationships between these.