The Bath Room: Relevant changes to blog for crit 3/projection/exhibition

Monday, 24 October 2011

Relevant changes to blog for crit 3/projection/exhibition

Changes made to my blog recently.

Changed the text sizes to suit projection. Everything needed to be a bit bigger to cater for readability and viewing from a distance.

I have removed the background image for now in order to not detract from the content of the blog - the blog is a conveyor of information.

The 'About me' section of the blog is now talking about me in terms of the bathroom throughout my life and informs the viewer that I am a spatial designer. This is a section of the thesis also so crossing over the two informative tools - text and visual. The blog becomes the tool for connecting thesis and design.

Have added in my location to the blog - this also refers to the importance of site in my design. \

The archive section of the blog has been rearranged to show oldest posts first. Shows development and progress/process. Still maintains it's slightly cryptic method.

Changed the colours of links etc to be more readable. Red for links, orange for roll-over and green for visited.

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My fascination with the domestic bathroom obviously started from an early age - perhaps because I lived in a standard council-house, and perhaps because I have never really experienced anything more than the standard. I remember one particular time when I was with my mum visiting her family in Liverpool, we were with my Uncle David and he had to stop in to see his boss. I can't remember her house, where it was or even her name, but I remember telling my mum, Uncle David, and his boss that I needed to go to the bathroom. I walked up the staircase - it seemed very tall at the time and hooked round to the left at the bottom. I remember standing at the top of the stairs and yelling down "Muuuum!". Mum came rushing to my aide, obviously thinking I was injured or I'd done something terrible in a house belonging to someone we didn't know. When she got to the bottom of the stairs I told her to "come, quick", she bounded up the stairs and followed me into the bathroom. I turned around to face her as she walked through the doorway and said "look how cool the bathroom is!"

Today, I live in a 2009 Stonewood home that my parents selected from a range of pre-drawn plans - and once again the bathroom is standard. Our plans were drawn before the sink, toilet, bathtub and shower were selected. It is my belief that my personal experiences of the bathroom have informed my design practice, specifically my desire to make interiors more fitting to the person that lives in them. This desire has seeped into this Master of Design project, using my skills as a Spatial Designer and my own experiences within the domestic bathroom to tailor a bathroom which connects the bathroom space with it's user - me.