ITS RAINING CLOSETS

THE CLOSET...

With plans for the new shower in the works it became apparent that more demolition would be necessary. wonderful news.

So I took out the closet that bordered the bathroom

Then I ran around with it.

Then I threw it up into the air a handful of times.

And now the back of the airstream looks like this

Soon to come... 

Designs for the shower. 

It involves cutting up a rusty oil drum... 

If that doesn't wet your appetite... well shoot. 

I suppose you don't like rusty oil drums as much as I do.

NYC & THE VOID IN THE THING

One morning Jack brought up the possibility of going to New York to see the SOFA expo. I said hell yeah. 

(Jack, while we waited for the bus to New York)

After seeing the sculptures at SOFA and a few galleries with Jack, I met up with dear 'ol Travis Fitch. I knew he would enjoy the question I had brought him - 

"What would you do with an airstream?"

We discussed it over a few beers - appropriately sketching our ideas out on a napkin

should it be a thing in a void or a void in a thing? hmmm....

RUB A DUB TUB

THE TUB... THE SHOWER...

I had one slightly absurd idea stewing since the very moment I heard about this airstream - bring in a cast iron clawfoot bathtub, elevate it a foot off the floor, cut a hole in the roof, and cap it with a cupola so I could have a 360 degree view 

while taking a shower.  

When I arrived, I found that my head touched the ceiling when I stood in the tub. This meant there was a legitimate motive for my shower cupola!

After discussing it with Jack, we settled on the much more reasonable option of lowering the shower into the cavity where the waste water tank was once located. Sigh... no cupola. But lowering a portion of the floor in the airstream was actually a pretty sweet design move in its own right. Plus, we decided to cast a nice custom concrete shower pan.

So you know what that means...

The existing tub's gotta go

...and it went

WASTED WASTE WATER

IT HAS BEGUN....

While taking measurements and starting to sketch design ideas, Jack figured we might as well get moving on the things we knew we'd have to address. First up - the bathroom.

Jack had decided on fixed plumbing. That sounded great to me.

The waste water storage tank had to go. It was located in a dropped down section of the chassis between the two main longitudinal beams, covered by a much-decayed aluminum panel.

So I got a some tools and 

stuck my face under this thing's rear end.

I removed the Airstream's spleen... or appendix... 

some organ it no longer needed.