Project 001... The Bathroom

After getting drunk and throwing darts at a board, I finally landed on a topic to blog about first. I will be blogging about my very first project in my course, which was to design a bathroom.





The brief was fairly straightforward, design a bathroom to house a bath, shower and toilet, using the space of 2000mm by 4000mm. Before I go through the design, below is the floor plan and 4 elevations of the room.

At the time I thought this was great design, looking back, there is some alright features, but there is a lot to change. However, to run through the design, the shower is an open shower with a recessed base. The vanity is of basic design, and the basin in the corner is of a cylinder design. The toilet is your basic toilet, but where the main feature comes in is the bath, which connects to the C-Bus system.

I like to think I have revolutionised baths with my design, as the bath I design is so amazing, so brilliant, so, there isn't enough words in the entire universe to describe just how good of a bath it is. When you step into the bathroom for a bath, you select your mood on the keypad located just at the door. You might of had a hard day at work, so you want to "Relax" or perhaps you are bathing just before a party and want to get "Pumped" or maybe you are spending it with a special someone and want to be "Romantic". By selecting one of the three options, this determines your bath experience, so after you select an option, you head to the bath, for the rest of the blog, let's say you chose "Relax".

You turn the taps, but what, "What is that?" You asked yourself. You look at your clear base of your bath and noticed it has lit up in a calming and sensual blue light of orbs. The bottom of the bath contains hundreds of LED lights which light up the bottom and some of the side, and once water starts filling up, the bath is lit up. If you chose Pumped, the colours would be changing from Orange, Yellow and Green. If you chose Romantic, the water would be turning red, but not from a blood source, oh no, from the LEDs.

"But how does it actually work without shocking the person?" You question me. Quite easy my good lad, you see, the base of the bath has a very good seal. Yup, it's that simple, it's almost criminal.

Some things I would change however is, well, nearly everything. The bath could be in a better position being a dominant feature of the room, and the toilet best suited maybe in a full separate room. Window placement I did not think about, but looking at the design, the bath is positioned wrongly, as the head-base makes you look at the toilet wall, and not out the window.

There isn't too much else to say on the project, was fairly simple. I've designed three bathrooms and a couple en suite since this project, so things have improved. Anyway, that's it for Project 001, stay tuned for Project 002, Alterations and Additions