The Bath Room 2

20110912

I have been MIA, back to it now

20110906

Re-configuring the Bathroom_Example 8

This layout wouldn't work at all, the bath sits in the middle of the bathroom and obstructs the room, entering the room and access to the sink and shower from the main entrance. The towel rail is located near the shower and bath but still in an awkward place.

The shower, as you can see, fits in the corner next to the window if one of the smaller panels are against the wall. The shower door would have trouble opening but this could be a wash-area as opposed to a shower cubicle.

The bath is in the center of the bathroom, but the bath would get in the way of the swing-door from the hallway. The sink is on the wall directly as you walk into the bathroom, but obstructed by the bath.

Re-configuring the Bathroom_Example 7

This layout is a very impractical use of the bathroom, however it does still contain the products that the bathroom requires, therefore surely it is still a 'functioning' bathroom. The shower swing-door faces out and replaces the existing timber swing-door into the bathroom. One can simply step from hallway into the shower.

The bath is angled at 45degrees off of the shower back. The drains of both the shower and bath are close together for plumbing purposes, however the user would have to sit facing the shower. The bath tub sits between the shower cubicle and the two walls - the wall between the bathroom and my sister's room and the outside wall.
The towel rail is located on the other side of the bath tub, making use of what would be wasted space. It would be rather inconvenient for the shower and sink though.

The shower faces out of the bathroom into the hallway, and the sink behind it. It would be difficult to access the sink apart from through the door to my sister's bedroom.

Re-configuring the Bathroom_Example 6

This layout is very unreasonable. The shower is blocking off the main doorway between the bathroom and hallway, and the bath is almost blocking off the sliding door into my sister's bedroom. The bath would be able to be stepped into and over though.

The bathroom layout is pretty much inaccessible and useless.

There is plenty of space between the bath and shower for drying and changing etc. The towel rail is located close to both for ease of use.

The sink is placed under the bathroom window, and as you stand at the sink washing your hands or brushing your teeth, you could have a view out of the window. However, to get to the bathroom sink, one would have to climb over the bath and enter through my sister's bedroom.

Re-configuring the Bathroom_Example 5

This layout aims to facilitate the progression from sink (used often) to bath (used seldom). The bath is angled to face the door - however too close to the door to actually open. The shower is placed in the centre of the bathroom and leads onto the bath - both facing the window.

Access from my sister's bedroom is alright - however the bathroom seems split into two rooms. The sink wouldn't be very accessible from the sliding door to my sister's room.

The sink is angled against the shower cubicle and would have to be supported somehow. Couldn't be cantilevered anymore.

The bath is directed so that the occupier faces out of the window - the window is well above head height sitting down though. It is awkward that the drain for the sink and the bath are quite far away from eachother.

Despite this bathroom layout being very far-fetched, it seems the most do-able out of the 5 so far, apart from the current bathroom layout.

Re-configuring the Bathroom_Example 4

EXAMPLE 4

This layout does not block off any of the doorways or windows in the bathroom. However, upon entering the bathroom from the hallway one would have to climb through the bath to get to the sink.

The sink is easily accessible from my sister's bedroom and the towel rail is located next to it for ease of use. The sink backs onto the back of the acrylic shower, but would have to be supported somehow and could no longer be cantilevered.

Negotiating around the sink and shower would be tight - would have to have the recessed sliding door to my sister's bedroom open to fit past potentially.

The bath sits diagonally between two walls. The triangular areas at the end of the bath could be used for storage perhaps. - Still have the obstacle of getting from one end of the bathroom to the other though and the plumbing would be tricky.

The shower faces outside and to the window. The front swing door could be replaced with a shower area - no longer a shower cubicle - the walls and floor could be tiled etc.

Re-configuring the Bathroom_Example 3

EXAMPLE 3

This layout cannot work because the shower is, once again, blocking the only window into the bathroom. The bath is also in an awkward position, blocking off the main access/doorway to the bathroom from the hallway.

The sink is in an alright position, with plenty of room around it. It would be awkward to use because the bath is blocking the main doorway, but is in a good position to access from my sister's bedroom. There is a lot of room for movement and changing in the center of the bathroom.

The towel rail is quite far away from the shower, sink and bath which would be unhelpful in terms of better design.

Re-configuring the Bathroom_Example 2

EXAMPLE 2

Once again, the red represents the existing bathroom layout and the white overlays are the proposed new layout. This layout of the bathroom would not work because the shower is blocking the main entrance to the bathroom.

This would also be difficult to negotiate in terms of using the sink more often than the shower, for example, as the sink is furthest away from any of the entries to the bathroom - even though they are blocked off.

The bath's position also is blocking part of the doorway between the bathroom and my sister's bedroom.

The sink is once again in a nice position directly below the window, but is no-use due to the position of the other bathroom components.

Re-configuring the Bathroom_Example 1

The red is the existing bathroom layout. I have moved the bathroom products around in various configurations. This is in an attempt to find out why they layout of my bathroom is the way it is.

I believe that the layout of the bathroom may not necessarily be the best it can be because of the pre- determined shape of the bathroom. When building our Stonewood home in 2009, the process involved selecting our home from a variety of plans designed by Stonewood. We would then sit down with an architect and tweak various parts of the house that we wanted to spend more or less money on. After the finalized design was drawn-up by Stonewood, we were recommended a variety of specialist shops to select our bathroom, kitchen etc. furniture from and organize it through each company separately.

So how does this inform my design theory and design practice? Well it tells me a variety of important points:

That my house plans were drawn up before knowing what furniture each room was to contain.
That when shopping for my bathroom furniture, we were allowed to chose from a variety of products in shops.
The shape of the bathroom cannot have been derived by the products within it.

In an attempt to understand the layout of my bathroom, I have made copies - to scale - of the shower, bath, sink and towel rail and reconfiguring and repositioning them within the constraints of the existing bathroom walls. I anticipate that the layout of my bathroom is because it is the only way the furniture would fit in the room provided to be 'the bathroom'.

Above is an rough plan of the bathroom - it highlights where there are doors (and if they are sliding/swing), windows and outside walls, as well as HWC and linen closet and the relationship to the hallway.

This plan will be useful i knowing where products can be placed as obviously the wall with the window to the outside could not be used for the shower, for example.

EXAMPLE 1

This layout would not be possible because the shower is blocking off the only window. The sink position would be a good place - directly as you walk in the main door from the hallway.

The bath might be in an awkward place as it's too close to the shower and the shower door might not be able to swing open.

Clear walk into the bathroom from the hallway (opposite the sink) through to the bath and shower. Towel rail has only moved slightly from its original position.

Re-configuring my Chch bathroom

I have started to play around with my existing bathroom. I cut out the various objects in my bathroom and am trying to reconfigure them within the existing walls. I'm just adjusting the photos of this now and they will be uploaded soon.

The red represents where the existing show shower, bath, sink etc are, and the white overlays are where my proposed positions will be.

Wednesday Morning To-Do

Organize the bathroom in alternative ways. My bathroom isn't necessarily the best design, just the configuration that fits into the provided space/ wont fit any other way.
Penetrate existing walls if there is better ways of fitting bathroom products.
Laura Ford's Thesis - continue to read through.
Start photoshopping movement diagram lines.
Finish last group of Linear diagrams - Time/Product
Scan chapters from

Thinking Inside the Box
The Bathroom
Ritual Architecture

20110905

Thinking about my Thesis contents

Intro

‘Lapse

Inside Out

Julian Hakes

Lepori & Franck

Janet Frame?

Bart Prince

Cover Tiles JSPR

Zaha Hadid?

Outside In

Rachel Whiteread

Petr Kubik Relaxation Bath

150 best bathroom ideas

example 1

example 2…

Elizabeth Grosz?

Site_Rolleston

Construction drawings

Specs

“Measuring bodily movement in everyday spatial activities”

X + Y Coordinate still + film

Taping up 10b05

Stills

Blob, negative space drawings

Hertzian Space – Mark Taylor + Burry

Always moving

Bathing shadow – Body movement drawing

Showering shadow – Body movement drawing

Bathing – Drawing Up, Drawing Down

Showering – Drawing Up, Drawing Down

Filming

Re-enacting the “act of doing”

Changing

Showering

Always moving

The Bathroom

Lakes, Rivers and Waterfalls

Frederick Bassi – Bathing in the Lake

“Naigara” “Nautilus”

Waterfall contemporary showers etc.

Public Baths

Lawrence Wright history

Private Baths

Bath Ergonomics – Stephen Pheasant

Lawrence Wright history

Alexander Kira

Individual

Tailor-made

Architecture of Intimacy

Portrait

Janine Antoni

Lick and Lather

Eureka

Suh Do Ho

Eadward Muybridge

Sculpture.

My bathroom drawings

“ photos

“ routines/rituals

My Bathroom

Georges Perec The Bedroom, The Apartment

SPACE diagram

Sketchup

Photos

Of site

Diary

Pedgley

Rooms>Days>Products…diagram

Movement Diagrams

Rediscovering the Bathroom

Film

Sound

Ritual Architecture

Dornbracht Culture Projects

Statements

Noises

Dornbracht

Symetrics

Elemental Spa

Balancing Modules

My Bath-Room

Response to

Diary

Diagramming diaries findings

Movement diagrams

Linear diagrams

Film

Sound

Sketchup

Reconfiguring the bathroom (multiple)

Photos

Human inhabitation – consequence of my presence

Reflection // Process

Tuesday 23rd August_Movement Diagram

Monday 22nd August_Movement Diagram

Sunday 21st August_Movement Diagram

Product & Action from Bathroom 1 text

Product / Action

Beginning to move things around in the digital version of my bathroom - this has limitations, of course, because of the walls and structure that surround the products within the bathroom.
In image 1, I have pulled the shower out from the wall 500mm, and rotated the sink so it is parallel with what represents the shower door.

Image 2 is the joining of the sink and the shower, doubling up the partition between the shower water and the rest of the bathroom with the mirror behind the sink.

In image 3 I have rotated the attached shower and sink so that the sink is at a right-angle with the existing walls. This is so that the sink is the first product you come across when entering this bathroom.

In image 4, the sink and shower have been brought closer to the main entrance to the bathroom - the doorway at the top of the image is the recessed sliding-door into my sister's bedroom, the main entrance is on the opposite wall. The progression as you enter the room is from sink to shower to bath.

This relates to my recordings in the bathroom diary I have been keeping - and duration - the sink was the most used [for brushing teeth, putting things on top of, - but mostly for the mirror behind it], followed by the shower [used for showering, washing my hair and cleaning mostly] and lastly the bath [which was only used once in 3 weeks for bathing].

Image 5 is a plan view of the new bathroom showing the progression again. I have centered the sink, shower and bath, which look onto the window of the bathroom.

Image 6 shows the new layout of the bathroom. The shower and sink have been moved closer to the main entrance (seen on the right-bottom of the image) and the bath has had it's skirting removed and placed to the side, and moved to touch the far wall under the window.

It is interesting to note that this progression - sink, shower, bath - also takes into account duration of use of product unintentionally. The sink is used in short bursts throughout the day, the shower in longer bursts once a day and the bath taking the longest time, and used seldom.

Bathroom 1_moving things around the bathroom

Image 2 is the joining of the sink and the shower, doubling up the partition between the shower water and the rest of the bathroom with the mirror behind the sink.

Image 5 is a plan view of the new bathroom showing the progression again. I have centered the sink, shower and bath, which look onto the window of the bathroom.

Image 7 is a plan view of the new bathroom, Bathroom 1, which shows the progression nicely from sink (used a lot) to bath (used little). Note that the shower-drain and the sink-drain have lined up and all drains are in one straight line.

It is interesting to note that this progression - sink, shower, bath - also takes into account duration of use of product unintentionally. The sink is used in short bursts throughout the day, the shower in longer bursts once a day and the bath taking the longest time, and used seldom.

20110901

Time/Action_Final Diagram

This has the same key as the Time/Body Parts diagram.

18th - yellow

19th - green

21st - blue

22nd - purple

23rd - red

25th - orange

30th - pink

It gives a good indication about my actions/movements/routines in the bathroom and highlights what I go into the bathroom to do most often - opening & closing the doors/windows/drawers, admiring myself in the mirror, switching on and off lights/fans/heaters/taps, picking up stuff and brushing stuff or rinsing stuff.

30th August

25th August

23rd August

22nd August

21st August