blog 6

Blog 6

How do Chareau’s particularly ingenious design strategies impact upon the users of the space?

This design was a masterpiece and way beyond his era. Even in comparison with the contemporary interior design, it is still quite bold and outstanding. Internally, spatial division is variable by the use of sliding, folding or rotating screens in glass, sheet or perforated metal, or in combination. “There are no plastered walls; the doors open without handles; the entire building is an amazing glass box set.” You will feel like that you are in an open space rather than a bathroom.

How do these design strategies challenge and contest the conventional segregation of bathing spaces within the home?

Speaking of bathrooms, the first thing comes in my mind was that bathroom is a small confined space fitted with a toilet, a shower cube, maybe a bath tub. Maison De Verre’s bathrooms were like from a different dimension they were huge. Just as telling are the dimensions: the size of the master bathroom equals the size of the master bedroom. “The interior space can be made to expand or shrink, thanks to the silently sliding perforated metal panels.” You can feel so much freedom in the house especially in the bath room. These perforated metal panels can divide the shower and bath separately. Users can also swing open and enable them to chat with each other while they bath.

“The bathroom is divided into feminine and masculine. The sexes live side by side in this house. The subtle arrangement of the folding duralumin doors that nowhere reach the ceiling screens the body but allows conversation to continue.” I really appreciate the house’s elasticity, allowing for varying degrees of solitude and intimacy. The house was a perfect balance between the need for company and privacy, an idealized combination of the senses.

What do you imaging bathing in these spaces would be like?

It would be a great experience bathing in these spaces. I would feel like swimming in the ocean like a fish and hopping in the woods like a deer. It is like expose myself into the nature just like Adam and Eve first arrived at the Garden of Eden.

Works Cited list:

Vellay, Dominique, La Maison De Verre: Pierre Chareau’s Modernist Masterwork. Thames and Hudson: London, 2007

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