My personal Bathing experience

A nice hot shower after a hard days work is something that I very much so look forward to. Hot water helps to sooth, refresh and revitalise the human body, riding us of toxins and cleansing the skin.

Bathing is a large part of my daily routine, It’s something that I cant live without. However my personal bathing experience is not exactly the most exciting. As much as I would love to soak in bubble bath or stand under a rain shower, I am limited to my uni student lifestyle. I live in a student flat (Across the road from the Dadley building) I live with 4 other people in a flat of 5. We share 2 bathrooms between us, each of which are internally located meaning they have no natural light source.

On most days of the week I shower twice, once in the morning and once at night. I wake up go to the toilet then take a shower. For me being clean makes me feel so much more comfortable, theres nothing worse than going to sleep with out having a shower.

Showering and bathing can have different effects on the human body based on the temperature of the water. For example in the morning I like to have a shower that is more on the cold side, this for me acts like liquid sleep waking me up, ready to begin the day. I associate a hot shower with comfort, much . like the feeling of being tucked up in a warm bed, you don’t want to leave a hot shower has the same feeling, resulting in a longer shower. Theres noting wrong with having a long hot shower, however I associate this more with the idea of leisure bathing, rather then to purely wash ones self. This lead me to think that Depending on the situation different bathing experiences and conditions are required.

I will ensure to take into account my own bathing experiences in regards to designing a bath-house proposal for the Dadley building basement. I plan to do further research in order to better understand the subject.