I’m (almost) always a supporter of ideas that conserve energy or resources. Theoretically then, I’d be for this minimalist bathroom idea show below, made with a minimum of materials, it looks like something from IKEA.
Only one problem…the dual use design is just a wee bit problematic:
Yes that’s right, it’s the eco pee n’ wash urinal combo hand wash stand.
From “Yanko Design” who writes:
Whoa! Men To Pee and Wash In The Same Stand!
I’m not a man so I really don’t know how comfortable you guys are going to be with this thought…peeing and washing hands in the same urinal stand! What Designer Yeongwoo Kim has done is incorporated the wash basin just above the spot you take aim to pee. The reason cited is that you’ll save a water flush cycle, coz when you rinse your hand after the job (I hope you guys do that!), the same gray water can be used to cleanse the urinal basin. Tell me, how many of you guys will be comfortable with this? For once, my opinion doesn’t count, but I do find it funny!
Eco Urinal is an iF Concept Design 2010 winning entry!
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Well good for that, ew.
My question back is this: Since equality is important in our society today, please show me the water saving design for women’s restrooms.
Oh, no pee n’ wash design for that? Focus groups said Eww! ? Check.
I really don’t want to save water that much, and I really don’t think anyone else does either. Modern sanitation is one of mankind’s greatest health achievements. Let’s not mess with success. Plus, I don’t think the glass would survive long in a public restroom.
I think this is a FAIL blog candidate. Like George Costanza’s travel dilemma , faced with one of these on a road trip I wouldn’t go to the bathroom the entire trip.
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Im nearly 7 foot tall. Wonder if id be able to wee in the sink part…
It kind of makes sense to me, and saves space at least in the mens room. The graphics are a bit of a photoshop disaster though. Bad reflections makes it look like there’s a splash guard right where we’d really not want it.
Haha I think it works quite well
We can also pee in the shower
http://www.sosmatatlantica.org.br/index.php?section=content&action=contentDetails&idContent=387
I honestly don’t see what difference it makes from a hygiene standpoint per-se. If you (or rather if *one*) can’t visit a urinal in that format without accidentally directing a jet above waist height, there are more fundamental problems.
The big problem is behaviour; queues form at urinals, not at basins. Increasing the time spent at a urinal may encourage people to skimp on the essential washing up.
Oy but I wonder if the Chacaltaya glacier in Bolivia is back to normal cant get any AGW sites to show anything later than 2008…..suspicious…
Well first of all, what happens when it’s used by a whole bunch of people who don’t actually wash their hands?
Secondly, what mechanism is in place to make the “sink” water flow down the glass as a curtain, rather than a stream?
Nice idea, but reality is going to bite this one.
Well, if form follows function then this design achieves that. As to being all that innovative, I don’t think it makes it. Hum, I think I still prefer a tree, in the summer time anyway.
Actually, women & men can be both catered to with this Australian invention-
http://www.royalflush.net.au/
Well since urine is supposed to be sterile anyway; you could always just pee on your hands to wash them; and that wouuld do away with the faucet for a truly minimalist design; and ordinary niceties prohibit description of the universality of such a design.
Izzis a serious climate issue ?
Actually,
I find the design pretty clever. Water saving IS something to be concerned about in areas that experience frequent droughts.
However, I find the design to have shortcomings in bathrooms frequented by NBA players. The danger of them using the wrong “receptacle” would be to “high” for my taste.
Look like a great idea to me
Not a fan of the Whizz ‘n Wash.
For woman: Extend the bottom out to become a seat. Woman sits straddling the sink (facing wall) as opposed to the traditional direction. Lower sink height. Add make up mirror. Add bidet and paper. Add extra flush option in case no. 1 becomes no. 2. Much better design for disable people too, call it the slide in slide back out design.
Longer time at one station. Longer bottle neck and a critical function leading to longer line ups. Can’t see them working at sporting events.
If water saving is the key, why not cycle the gray water from the sink through a tank and then use it to rinse the toilets.
Reminds me of a joke.
2 buddies, 1 a Med student and the other an Engineering student are in the john together taking a leak.
Med student finishes, washes his hands and proudly claims “in med school, we learn to wash our hands after using the toilet.
Engineering student nods his head, finishes up and immediately starts to walk out of the wash room without washing his hands.
Med student says “aren’t you going to wash your hands?”
Engineering student replies, “No, in engineering we learn not to urinate on our hands”.
There are already waterless urinals that work quite well, I don’t see the point of this.
Sure a slight convex curve on that glass could be very flattering, from above.
I remember a Giants game in Candlestick Park (yes, that was a while ago). The johns were very busy, so busy that the rented beer went down any watering hole, including the sinks we used to wash our hands. Somehow we survived….
I’m more concerned about splash on my pants with this design. The problem is the flat side pointed back at you. There is no splash guard. The back wall should be a V shape.
I have no problems with this, per se, but I also don’t quite see the point. A sink is not merely a place to wash your hands after you pee, so these should not be used to replace sinks. Those corners are also going to be a bitch to clean.
This seems typical of design contest entries that also bring us such items as bicycles that can’t actually be built; which is probably a good thing, because they couldn’t actually be ridden either.
Hmmmm…. all those sharp corners make me a little uncomfortable.
Constanza had the peeing in the shower idea, too. “It’s all pipes.”
I you don’t piss on them, why do you need to wash your hands?
Shit has bacteria, urine is sterile. Unless, of course, you’ve spent too much time with Mary Jane Rottencrotch.
To carry water conservation to its logical conclusion …
Let’s MANDATE that if you are taking a shower you must first pee in it while washing. .
We save water and use existing facilities.
I’m still working on how to pee and save water while bathing in the tub …hmmmm.
Actually, this is pretty well the design used on the spaceship Serenity in Joss Whedon’s Firefly series.
Its a design desaster. Not the idea, but the sharp angles. You’ll never see that in any sanitary ware because they will collect dirt and impossible to clean. Furthermore, the curtain side walls has no flushing action for the spash