Wednesday, 26 January 2011

Elements of the 1st Floor Male toilet

















1) What is the size and shape of the space?
It is made up of one rectangle which is around 14ft long and 10ft wide. The front of the rectangle has a square where the toilet cubicles are. The flow of the room is blocked off by two running walls.

2) What is the quality of light (natural or otherwise)?
Electric lights are available at the command of the users of the toilet. they are mostly off during the day as the large windows, although frosted, allow a lot of natural light in.

3) What is the nature of sound in the space?
Good acoustics really, slightly block of flow due to patrician walls, but overall not bad. Sounds filter through the toilet but rarely out from it.

4) What is the material nature of the space (colour, surfaces etc)?
White walls. Quite dusty, like its natural state is dirty. Not so much from use or lack of cleaning, it just knows its a toilet. You get lots of designs to make people think that taking a shite in the toilet is the last thing you do. This toilet doesnt pander to any such phalisey. Its floors are scuffed and black and fading.

5) What is the conventional use of the space?
Defication, urination and the subsequent, yet worryingly optional, cleansing of the hands.

6) What histories are attached to the space?
Don't as of yet know.

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