I like this in theory, but when I've experienced it, I don't necessarily enjoy aggressively pre-fab architecture in a place I'm staying. One example is earlier this year I booked a room at a hotel near CDG so I could spend the night and catch an early flight. For a very reasonable price I got a room with a shower, a bed, a chair, a desk, and a (thankfully soundproof) window where I could marvel at the engineering of the underbellies of planes every few minutes. It was clean and quiet. The problem was that everything was CNC cut plywood or molded fiberglass and put together with exposed carriage bolts, so it had the feel, not even of being on the deck of the Starship Enterprise, but on a cheap plywood mockup of it. In a bathroom you need cupboards to keep your denture glue and hair bands, and surfaces where you can put random toothbrushes and face creams, and you might even want to put a hook in the wall to hang your loofah. You want to be able to look at the random patterns in the shower tiles and imagine faces and puppy dogs and stuff. I feel like if this bathroom was in my house, brushing my teeth or bathing in it would feel like being in a dystopian movie about an overpopulated, resource-barren, industrial earth. But maybe it was just ahead of its time in that regard.
> In a bathroom you need cupboards to keep your denture glue and hair bands, and surfaces where you can put random toothbrushes and face creams, and you might even want to put a hook in the wall to hang your loofah.
Yeah, the unfortunate truth is that a lot of the ",nooks and crannies" stem from the things we put in a bathroom. A sensible "dymaxion-like" design would absolutely have to incorporate surfaces, cupboards, space for towels and ideally a window.
How well this would be reconcilable with the "easy to clean" objective is the question...
It's stamped metal, so presumably its magnetic. Buy magnetic toothbrush holder, magnetic shelf , magnetic shelves and attach anywhere you want. Never worry about loofah hook being in the awkward spot - place it where you want! Put a magnetic-back picture with your favorite pattern in the shower to stare at!
(you'd want water-sealed or water-resistant magnet accessories, but I think they would be easy to find if that kind of bathroom to become common)
I feel like if this bathroom was in my house, brushing my teeth or bathing in it would feel like being in a dystopian movie about an overpopulated, resource-barren, industrial earth.
Indeed. It's basically a "live in the pod" sort of feeling.
There are many types of prefabs. With https://parcelplot.org we're using sky bubbles for our off-grid vacation rental projects. They're a fairly luxurious solution and let visitors get a pretty neat view of the stars, and they feel like they're a part of the environment. Of course, that doesn't really work so well in an urban setting.
But I think there's going to be a growing market for luxury prefabs in general. Futuro houses are also worth looking at https://thefuturohouse.com/