Introduction
The world today is experiencing unprecedented demographic growth and consequent urbanization in various places. This has increased stress on physical and social infrastructure. Sanitation remains a cause of concern in both growing urban fabrics and underdeveloped rural areas in developing countries.
Owing to the dire importance of communal sanitation and hygiene, there is an urgent need to develop an integrated approach concerning the development of public health services. Volume Zero Competitions invited architects and designers to rethink public sanitation - an issue plaguing our future.
While the primary use of the designed structure would be as a public toilet, it could also serve for other recreational, communal or social functions. The purpose of this design challenge was to change the way people thought about public toilets. The design could act as a module, which would be replicated in different areas similar to the site context chosen.
Highly innovative designs were curated by the many participants of this competition. The expert jurors particularly liked the ones that had a strong community-centric approach and that were placed in contexts that needed these rethought loos. These entries that managed to change the way the users felt about the public toilet were selected as the top entries.
Volume Zero thanks all the participating members and teams for their entries in the Little Big Loo Rethinking Public Toilets 2020 Architecture Competition!