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.
Lol-
the urinal opening merely requires pneumatic lips to guarantee no drips.
Rhoda R: it was a few decades ago – not sure Shela’s were allowed but doubt anyone would blink if she managed
virgin wool?
In Ukraine, the toilet is a hole in the floor. There is often a porcelain covering tho I know not why. There is also a sign asking you please …do not put paper in the system. There is a basket for that. Paper gums up the works. But you won’t have any paper anyway. If you were VERY fortunate, the woman running the toilet gave you 2 squares for 2 Hyrvnia. And You’ll need those for the doorknob.
Pamela,
It’s usually an equipment malfunction problem. Sorry, can’t explain here.
Sheryl Crow also has a new design out…. looks strangely like a tourniquet.
Layne Blanchard says: “. . .uh, isn’t the planet covered with water?”
That’s right; but just imagine if everyone in the world (who had one) all flushed their toilets at the same time. The amount of water in the world would be reduced by, uh, well nothing really. It all just gets moved around, again and again.
“Isn’t this a resource management issue?”
By George, I think he’s got it; although part of the management issue might be concern about peeing in your drinking water.
So much for the waterless urinal. At least they are easier to clean.
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That angular urine catcher, will have scuzz in all the corners, ewwww.
What a piss poor design, looks like it has been made by someone who just started with Bryce and who still has’nt figured out how to make boolean-groups, apply proper materials and that the camera actually can move.
And the idea is not new, anyone who uses the products from lets say TOTO knows this.
Ah i see, Betaplug was way ahead in the que (>_<)
Cautionary note — don’t drop anything in the sink …
Symon says:
August 30, 2010 at 4:04 pm
“I[f] 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.”
Please, don’t ever come to my house. If you actually think your genitals too are sterile (and have you ever heard of a urinary tract infection?), you are dumber than a rock, and more dangerous than a flying one. And your casual use of the “s” word doesn’t bode well either.
Humans are germ-ridden, even when they try not to be, but obviously some are much filthier than others. Ugh.
So basically, these are urinals that won’t get flushed, all day.
Try a mirror like that behind your toilet for a week. Heh.
FYI, not Photoshop, it’s a CG image using 3d objects, like they do in movies these days. The only photoshopped part, probably, is the inset image of the person.
“Layne Blanchard says:
August 30, 2010 at 8:24 pm
But, (and I’m okay with conservation…. to save money, to extend diminishing resources, to save the cost of infrastructure)….. but, uh, isn’t the planet covered with water? Isn’t this a resource management issue? Okay, maybe use them in Arizona! ?”
Only ~1% (Which is still a lot) of all water on Earth fresh and natrurally occuring.
The design is a bit naff IMO, you’d be better off with separate washhand basins and waterless urinals, which are common in Australia. Personally, I am all in favour of rain water collection tanks and using grey water for things like flushing toilets, cleaning exterior paths/cars etc and for non-food plant irrigation but with so many people now living in rented apartments in Australia, there is nowhere to install these systems.
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Urine being almost invariably sterile, I have no objection to this design as long as the “backspatter” characteristics of the voiding troughs are suitable.
Because urine accumulating in the trough can be malodorous, however, it might be appropriate to set the washbasin to dispense a certain minimum volume of water for the combined handwash and flush when actuated.
Those of us who became used to Philadelphia’s old and now demolished Veterans’ Stadium know full well that the washbasins in men’s public necessaries have never really been anything other then auxiliary urinals.
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“Anton says:
August 30, 2010 at 10:06 pm
Humans are germ-ridden, even when they try not to be, but obviously some are much filthier than others. Ugh.”
You are correct, and too at the moment we walk out of the shower, they start propagating all over again. It gets worse, and not talking about our waste needs, there are ~80 species of bacteria in our eyes. There is a species of mite that lives in the hair folicle of our eye lashes. Everytime we touch someone we exchange many species of bacteiea, we even breath particles which have bacteria on it, bread for instance, and other “things” we can smell. If it weern’t for bacteria, food would be very bland. So, don’t worry too much about a little poo and pee.
Layne Blanchard says: “In Ukraine, the toilet is a hole in the floor. There is often a porcelain covering tho I know not why. [gas backflow preventer] There is also a sign asking you please …do not put paper in the system. There is a basket for that. Paper gums up the works….”
Reminds me of the sign I saw in a men’s room, circa 1953: “Please do not throw cigarettes in the urinals.”
Someone had added below: “as it makes them soggy and hard to light.”
Don’t get soap in your eye!!
The design problem is actually that men will try and multitask and wash and pee at the same time!!! greater distance between urinals please…
I think I read every comment, and didn’t see the most important point addressed: These things wouldn’t last a day in any men’s room I’ve ever observed, no matter how functional or non-functional they may be. Don’t know why a small minority of men feels the need to destroy bathroom appliances, but they seem to be in every crowd.
There is no water shortage, in areas which have stand up toilets. It is wasteful to treat water to be drinkable and then flush it away rather than use grey water. My employer has modified manually flushed urinals by just removing the flush – and you do not see the difference as the basic design drained properly and there were not cigarettes buts to block the flow. It is that simple. Equally a sign saying only flush if required would do the trick.
Toilet seats, much harder nut to crack.
Chris B says:
August 30, 2010 at 4:14 pm
Christopher says:
August 30, 2010 at 3:34 pm
Im nearly 7 foot tall. Wonder if id be able to wee in the sink part…
I’m nearly 6 feet tall and KNOW I can pee in the sink part…… LOL
I’m 5 feet tall – not sure i can reach the basin to wash my hands thank goodness!
/Mango
KLA
I know of a woman who accidentally used the male bathroom and thought the vitreous china wall hung urinals were basins and promptly washed her hands in one
“Sean says:
August 30, 2010 at 11:49 pm
Equally a sign saying only flush if required would do the trick.”
There is a saying I learnt while I was living in New Zealand, which happens to be a fairly wet country; If it’s yellow, let it mellow. If it’s brown, flush it down! Seems to work.
New multi-million dollar homes in Sydney have water-saving toilets which have to be flushed five times. Even then, you have to fish out that last floating pea. Water is often insufficently hot to wash dishes to an acceptable standard of hygiene. So you wash again, this time boiling the kettle.
Of course, you can really save water and power and let the excrement and food particles stick about for a bit.
Maybe the pensive classes and hipsters want medieval sanitation standards to match the fashion for medieval energy sources. Along with clunky windmills along the rural hillsides we can have cholera and typhoid outbreaks in the gentrification belts.
There’s too may people anyway!
I’m so eco-holier-than-thou.
I always pee in the sink anyway.