| Design Background

There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people's hearts, but there may only be one public restroom.

Public restrooms have always existed as marginalized places or buildings in people's minds: they are often located in hidden corners of a building or neighborhood, where people rush to relieve themselves or pass by quickly.

Although under the advancement of the "toilet revolution," clean and hygienic public toilets have become a basic configuration of the city, as an indispensable daily place, can public toilets in the city further break the "negative" definition and complete a transformation or renewal to meet people's needs beyond just emergencies?

| Design Concept

At first glance, this does not look like the kind of public restroom we imagine – with a backdrop of ginkgo and jacaranda, this cool-toned space exudes a modern feel with clean and sharp lines. The translucent perforated exterior wall, semi-open space, and transparent glass roof all allow it to face the main road and crowds with an exceptionally open posture in the densely populated community center.

Comfort, safety, intelligence, and efficiency; these are the keywords we set for this public restroom during the design process. To break through the pattern of public restrooms, we first broke the traditional closedness in the structure.

On one hand, there is the openness of the public space: almost like a small quadrangle, a public area for people to rest is deliberately left between the enclosed restrooms, equipped with seating, a self-service book house, and even a large screen TV.

The sense of enclosure is also broken by the transparent glass roof. Through the sloping glass top, natural light, trimmed by the eaves, flows in the sink area and on the ground.

Stepping into the restroom, a glance upwards allows one to see the branches swaying in the wind and the sky intersected by the branches, giving the entire space an immediate sense of breathing.