Absolute Arrows | Hiroshima Park Restrooms

FUTURE STUDIO ARCHITECTS based in Hiroshima, Japan designed a series of these park restrooms and they're nothing short of uncommon. These arrow shaped outhouses are playful, sculptural and take architecture seriously. Children and adults enter a space that is functional, cohesive and still interactive with its surroundings. I will always applaud minimalism, if it's well thought through. Children step in here and are still playing, the red handrails framing the fixtures are reminiscent of the playground railings and the light projects your eyes to the sky. It's like being in the space captains private washroom.

Absolute Arrows | Hiroshima Park Restrooms | 2009-2010

FUTURE STUDIO - Public Restrooms

Perry Lakes Bathrooms | Marion | Alabama

Here's an amazing project that was taken by Rural Studio, an undergraduate program at Auburn University, in 2003. A program that helps people, their communities, and offers its students the opportunity to showcase their creative genius.
My professor directed me towards this site while helping me focus in on my design concepts and ideas for the Jump the Gap contest.
"You've got to see this. This bathroom...well, it'll make you want to poop!"- RD

Perry Lakes Bathrooms | Auburn University 

The Shell

The Seat 

The View

"Following the materials palette of the pavilion at Perry Lakes, the students designed three unique toilet "experiences". The first is a fifty-foot "Tall toilet"; the second is the "Long toilet" with 2 cantilevering walls that capture and frame a tree; the third is known as the " Mound toilet" captured in the earthen septic  system of the bathroom complex." - Rural Studio - Auburn University

ROCA-Jump the Gap

I've officially signed up for the 4th edition of the Jump the Gap International Design Contest promoted by ROCA. This contest is a chance for designers to create and imagine new bathroom designs or related products, concept etc.
The life of an Interior Design student is usually spent in a confined studio of 16 or so girls, coffee mugs, coffee cups, coffee spills, coffee hype. Needless to say, I've spent little time scouting the neighborhood restrooms. However, here I am, googling the crap out of new, innovative and inspiring Water Closets for this contest.
I've therefore decided to give this little blog a boost and introduce you to my most exciting finds.

Pressing 'Search' in 5.4.3.2.1....