B19_#178 // Wet Rooms // Marco Catena Lavatoi Pubblici (or Public Wash-Houses) across Italy are usually located in communal settings, in small piazzas or cul-de-sacs of most towns and cities. Architecturally simple, with just a shelter above a large basin filled with running water, lavatoihave […]
#178 Lavatoio Metropolitano 1
B19_#178 // Wet Rooms // Marco Catena Lavatoi Pubblici (or Public Wash-Houses) across Italy are usually located in communal settings, in small piazzas or cul-de-sacs of most towns and cities. Architecturally simple, with just a shelter above a large basin filled with running water, lavatoihave […]
#177 Full Saturation
B19_#177 // Wet Rooms // Sabrina Syed The 4x4x4 is designed to be the most humid room in the dwelling. Through its humidification it breathes, seeps, precipitates and holds wetness. Adapted from a habit the author found in many bathrooms – of placing wrinkled clothes […]
#176 WET ROOM
B19_#176 // Wet Rooms // Luke Reveley ‘wet room’ responds to the inclusion of a laundry room within community-led housing schemes while acknowledging the absence of water within this space, in contrast to the traditional Indian “water room” where water is celebrated. The community share […]
#175 Koi
B19_#175 // Wet Rooms // Samuel Jaccard and Kimberley Berney All my senses are engaged as I wander about this curious museum. There’s still an apparent lavender scent clinging to the eroded walls. The sun glistens in the water below. Perfectly still. Amidst the blue […]
Brief 19
The Wet room “Wet Rooms” exist as vernacular spaces in Indian homes found in both communal and family dwellings. Tucked away near the entrances, these semi-private, semi-outdoor spaces have a small but critical task: they allow water to enter and leave the house without eroding it. They […]
#174 Salon Continues
B18_#174 // The Salon // Lloyd Lee There had been a salon, once heavily used by intellectuals and the ‘right’ people who frequently discussed essential ideas and thinkings of the modern world. Present day, internet ‘forums’ have replaced the salon. The Salon was forgotten… Less […]
#173 Post Truth Salon
B18_#173 // The Salon // Oscar Maguire In the salons of old, people would converse using only the knowledge of the world outside that they had brought into room with them at that time. Today almost all discussion or debate in any room can be […]
#172 The Conversation Loop
B18_#172 // The Salon // Emma Colthurst “… the eyes, the eyebrows, the tone, the smile, the body language… once again become essential within the reimagined Salon. Physical interaction and conversation intercepts the visitor’s daily digital feed and the infinite possibilities of shared language and […]
#171 “Imagine Everyone in the Audience is Naked”
B18_#171 // The Salon // Jack Sweet The original enlightenment Salons where spaces where ‘informal’ conversations came wrapped up in rigid layers of social formality. From the decor to the clothes, every aspect demanded from occupants a highly curated facade, a guarded ‘public self’, denoting […]
#170 Pocket Salon
B18_#170 // The Salon // Jonathan Wren Pocket Salon – An Acoustic Parlour The Salons of today inhabit preexisting, usually grand, spaces. The Pocket Salon is imagined as an acoustic-foam maze, deploying to fill these inspiring spaces. Conversations are compressed and expanded as members […]
#169 Conference Call
B18_#169 // The Salon // The Bakerloos This cube explores the influence of digital conversation tools on the experience of the contemporary Salon: In an increasingly globalised world and ubiquitous social media we continue to build more and more international relationships – the people we […]
Volume64 CubeLab 