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Corporeality, Hygienic spaces, WC: body and space under special conditions

Maragkou Dafni-Efthymia

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The toilet room is the place where the hidden interior of the body is in close contact with the hidden interior of the building, two plumbing systems temporarily connected. But to speak of it as a room is already to speak too quickly. Space connected to private waste, beyond the dominant social scene. The research paper examines the spatiality and the experience of the body in the toilet area. The body holds a key role in the processes of production, conceptualization and use of space, and in particular a decisive role in relation to the examined area of personal hygiene.Theoretical correlations such as normal / pathological, sexuality / hygiene, public / private, are studied. Search formed in the area of the toilet, a meeting place both of attraction and aversion. The following is an analysis from social, body boundary issues and applied cleanliness- hygiene correlations, to the applications of the toilet area. The private condition in constant renegotiation with public space. Accordingly, the aim of this project is to search hidden issues in the spatial interior, present in the background scene; activities that cross the boundaries between public/private and exist in the in-between space (/). How bodily practices are transformed to what is considered normal; how toilet contributed to the formation of the modern Western spatial perception; what do the spatial effects of these designs suggest on a broader scale. In this context, the research moves into three sections: - In the first chapter the body and space relationship is examined, with understanding tool the theoretical correlation between sexuality and hygiene. - In the second chapter, a selective route from 18th century and after is attempted. More specifically, it examines the events that contributed to sanitation, medicalization and introduction of the pluming technology. The highlight of which is considered to be the Modern Movement. The research focuses spatially on the individual bathroom, with elements that contributed to its evolution. - Finally, the third chapter focuses on studying cases of different possible connections in relation to the toilet — as a deregulation of the public and private, mixing elements of both categories.

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