Redesigning for the Body: Users and Bathrooms


Possibilities in creating unique interior qualities
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This is the case with modern bathrooms is the way an interior can depress the individual body. In the 20’s, expressively designed, the bathroom was just a space excluded for bodily needs and everyday use, the bathroom was talked about and depicted in a very limited way.

Alexander Kira’s work (The Bathroom ), influenced by ergonomics Influence, his work is often hailed as “a classic of user-centered design research”

Using a combination of cultural analysis, field research, and laboratory testing to bring users to the heart of the design, a series of redesign proposals are made.

41 Comparison of postures assumed by persons of varying sizes using equipment at the conventional height and at desirable heights. With a chart of basic anthropometric data above. From Alexander Kira, The Bathroom (1967), Bantam Books, a division of Random House.

In Mechanization Takes Command (1948), however, Giedion portrayed the naked washbasin as a triumph of progress and rationalism, and in Giedion’s eyes the functional, manly simplicity of the bathroom fixtures perfectly exemplified the modernist aesthetic. The modernists clearly celebrated bathroom accessories, but they did so in a very specific way, as icons of anonymous industrial processes and the embodiment of the principle that form follows function. The real body is actively suppressed in modernist representations that depict bathroom accessories as objects, floating outside the context of their use.


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