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Garden Toilet

This is a small project designed as a temporary structure which is about 300 sq m of built up spaces. It is to be a 'public convenience'', largely to facilitate the public and on-off events on site. It integrates the architecture and landscape, to liven up the existing site which also further reinforce the vision of a garden city. One is to experience an outdoor garden toilet that will for the moment distract them from the hustle and bustle urban cityscape.

This project is designed for easy assembly and disassembly which is suitable for most context that can help bring people close to nature.

The project is following the criteria from 'cradle to cradle' while crafting out a delightful experience that involves the issues of profane, pristine and provisional.

Walls are all constructed by gabion that is tall enough for provide basic privacy to user. Then, it can be infilled with any natural source other than those chosen in this project (fallen leaves, pebbles, stone) such as bottle, can, etc...)

Shower screen is made of a repetition of 2 layers overlapping bamboo so as to maximize the level of privacy yet creating an openness and passable little gaps for ventilation.

Floor is composed out of metal grill and wood palette, which contain gaps in-between to keep out water trapping.

Conventional system is selected for roofing system due to practical requirement.

The above-mentioned components can be taken down easily and some material sources can be return to nature.

This way, this project would require little building material and hence, a result of low carbon footprint that can be reuse after servicing its initial purpose.

The 'Garden Toilet' experience is shaped up through the interplay of gabion wall infill with natural waste such as dried leave and newly pruned leaves, and also other material like stone and live plants. Hence, this project requires minimum building material such as steel for gabion and its infill source which is largely made of natural output.

To increase the sense of naturalness, this 'Garden Toilet' is fully lighted by daylight and highly made use of natural ventilation to regulate the ventilation between spaces so as to avoid any unpleasant smell.

In 'Garden Toilet', it crafted an experience where one can be temporarily close to nature. It is a combination of architecture and its surrounding landscape forming part of its surrounding setting.

This project channels natural waste as a form of resources for the building in which reduce the need for huge, bulky and heavy material that can be hard to maneuver around comparing to lightweight material. Hence, it can be easily transported around and stored. Also, it will have a low carbon footprint which makes it more attractive to be use and reuse after servicing its initial purpose. So in long term, it is cost saving other than transporting and facilitating the fundamental service to program requirement.

The Garden Toilet in a city is a response to its environment. It can act as “green lungs” to enhance the streetscape as visual relief to soften the concrete environment around. A user is able to make use of their senses to experience this huge “green” compartment can be pleasant and enjoyable which will appeal to them.

Besides selected materials can evoke a feel of naturalness and timeless quality to enhance a visual comfort.

One can observe that building materials need not necessary be constructed out of a large amount of concrete which lacks a lot of humane touch. And nature could be found from basic natural sources which most of us wouldn't have noticed.

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The use of concrete as material for wall has been replaced by gabion wall with infilled of natural sources.