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Toilet by Architects of all sorts

By Redesigner: janpeeters Placed on: 2008-08-14 20:33:29 For some odd reason there are always as many men's toilets as there are women's toilets in public spaces. This strikes me because women need more time. Go to the cinema or public toilets at gas stations. There's always a queue of women lined up while men just fly in and out of the toilet. I think a ratio of 1:2 or 1:3 (for men:women) would be much more efficient. Of course there are places (football stadiums to use a cliché) where men outnumber women, but in places where the ratio M/W is equal, toilets should be redesigned in a different ratio.

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Tortoise Shape Toile..

by: bharatgupta
on August 26, 2008

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  • lililamalice

    lililamalice August 15, 2008, 6:51 pm "I think women also take more time because they have to undress as opposed to men who just open their fly... As well as ration it might be a matter of finding alternative solution for women to be able to pee standing up with minimum clothing removal.. now i'm not sure how that would be possible though." reply

  • meatredesignme

    meatredesignme August 15, 2008, 7:02 pm "I agree with liliamalice. As far as I'm concerned though, you're mainly addressing a problem of clothing as opposed to toilets and their design (granted they cannot be regarded completely autonomously from one another). I was thinking that it might make sense to reduce the size of toilets in general, leaving more room for the ladies toilets to expand in. My idea is to have the "pissoirs" opposing one another, separated by a wall, so that you cannot see whether someone is on the other side or not (question of overcoming inhibitions). The advantage over say, a wall mounted system is, that one might be able to use one and the same flushing system, as well as the same drain." reply

  • no1

    no1 August 18, 2008, 4:45 pm "http://varutstallning08.konstfack.se/industrial-design/johan-karlsson.html" reply

  • mwitter

    mwitter August 25, 2008, 9:50 pm "What about the Sphinx' urinoir for women ('Lady P': http://www.delta.tudelft.nl/archief/j30/n09/11268) for instance (needs less space for women toilets). And perhaps combine this with delicately mixing man/women toilets and still keeping privacy by changing arrangement of objects. I actually think the main need for men/women separation are the practices in front of the mirror and the sink." reply

  • meatredesignme

    meatredesignme August 25, 2008, 11:00 pm "is there an English version of the page you mention, or a picture or something? I could try translating to German, but to be quite frank, I'm a little too lazy ..." reply

  • Michel

    Michel August 26, 2008, 10:09 am "I found an English version at http://www.msmagazine.com/aug99/what.asp " reply

  • Frank Hogestijn

    Frank Hogestijn October 15, 2008, 8:55 pm "In vliegtuigen spenderen vrouwen ook aanzienlijk meer tijd op de toilet dan mannen. Het verschil in tijd is bij Franse en Asiatische toiletten veel geringer dan bij toiletten in andere landen/werelddelen. Reden is dat bij Franse toiletten de vrouwen ook moeten staan. Uitbreiding van de overige ruimtes zoals make-up ruimte zou dus aanzienlijk bijdragen aan de oplossing van het probleem " reply

  • Peter v b

    Peter v b October 16, 2008, 1:46 pm "Architects are all male? Just like designers of kitchen appliances never seem to cook themselves. I am pleased to see many ladies waiting in line taking over the 'mens' to solve the problem. 'men' and 'ladies' are just signs after all. " reply

  • monica B

    monica B October 29, 2008, 8:41 am "Kijk daar ben ik het nou ontzettend mee eens, ik drink behoorlijk wat water op een dag, en dan moet je gewoon heel vaak naar het toilet. En dames hebben gewoon wat meer handelingen dan een man die hoeven vaak alleen maar hun gulp open te doen toch" reply