Notes

Ritual of bath/shower - Nature


_ The only connection we still have to nature: going into your private place, being naked and getting in touch with water.
_ Being naked levels us with everybody else, independent of social level. Because we were born naked and will die naked. The material world around us stays aside, as a participant. We do not own it, it owns us.
_ We disconnect from exterior world and this moment puts us in touch with ourselves, and our own body. No one knows your body better than yourself. It's like an oasis.
_ We are dependent on water, we came from water and we are made of water. Brings us to the evolution. It's one of the only elements we consume as past times and it remained pure.


Romantic use of water
_ History of a native taking a bath in the lake. Respect to the nature and also personal privacy. You occupy a big space alone, and it feels like there is someone there.
_ It's the only moment you are naked and touching yourself, with an entity in-between: water.
_ Most of other materials are extracted and transformed. Water is precious, powerful (tsunamis and floods), and we need it. It represents a source of purity, cleanliness. Represents a place with healthy nature, analogy with a paradise. One of the only basic elements we still bring home (with air). Water and dirt were substituted. We wouldn't be able to create a fire on our own, or to look for pure water in the nature. Everything comes bottled and ready - no connection to nature.
_ Bathroom represents the top of privacy for most people. It's the only moment they have to be completely alone. They can't walk naked in their own houses, if living in an urban society.


_ Evolution
_ Romanticism
_ Privacy
_ Nature


Life-cycle of water: our use represents a small portion of it. We misuse by polluting and contaminating. Should we re-use it? Filter it? Capture from the rain and store it?
Life cycle of water - building up a scenario.


asian people showers in the evening
western people in the morning

Make a list of this regarding water:

HOW TO
QUALITY
QUANTITY, COLOURS PURITY TASTE
TRANSPARENCY OF PROCESS
RELATION TO WATER
ATTRACTIVENESS

THROUGH THE DESIGN YOU REFINE A RELATIONSHIP TO THE WATER

LIST OF HOW TO TREAT WATER,WHERE HOW WHAT