As below, the space created as a result of it's user.
This is then divided into the different sections which represent the various individual entities that make up the bathroom.
These various entitites are then reconfigured to create a bathroom space that is driven by user use.
For example the pale blue section represents the sink area - the area used most often by myself within the bathroom, followed by the green shower and pink bath.
This is then overlayed back onto the existing bathroom in various different compositions as demonstrated above and below..
And another configuration where there is an entry and exit point.
Once again, this is overlayed onto the existing bathroom plan.
And another reconfiguration.
And another, until I am happy with how the bathroom fits my needs as it's user.
The various areas within the bathroom are re-labelled to show which parts are where. This was chosen due to the sink being easily accessible, the shower being secluded and the bath being furthest from the entry point to the bathroom.
Areas within the bathroom are the exaggerated or shrunk to reflect their importance to me as the bathroom user. As the bath is seldom used, yet takes up most space within the existing bathroom, this is now made half it's original size.
Brief description of The Bath Room - Thesis undertaken as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Design, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand, 2012.
The contemporary domestic bathroom is a place where function and ritual coincide with the body and mass-produced industrial products, but, what about the body as a whole? The bathroom has become a place to perform certain rituals rather than a room to occupy one's rituals. My personal experiences of the standardized domestic bathroom become the motivation to test the boundaries, forms, aesthetics and function of what is commonly understood to be a bathroom. This design-led research project addressed the redesign of a standardized domestic bathroom where I used my own body and domestic rituals to investigate the potential for a bathroom design that is tailor-fit to its user.