Latest Stories in Bathroom Design - Page 3
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More On The Gates Foundation's Plans To Reinvent The Toilet (Video)
Yesterday I expressed some reservations about the Gates Foundation plans to reinvent the toilet in Gates Foundation Throwing $42 Million Into The Toilet. I was concerned that they were looking for a solution to a problem that was not technological but
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Gates Foundation Throwing $42 Million Into The Toilet
Bill and Melinda are making a big investment in " a strategy to help bring safe, clean sanitation services to millions of poor people in the developing world." The foundation notes that a billion
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Portable Composting Toilets for Festivals, Homes and More
As festival season rolls on, many party goers will have been putting up with the ordeal of smelly, chemical-laden and often disgustingly soiled portable toilets. But it doesn't have to be that way. Roskilde's p-trees
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History and Design of the Bathroom Part 6: Learning from the Japanese
Siegfried Giedion, in Mechanization Takes Command, writes:
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The History of the Bathroom Part 5: Alexander Kira and Designing For People, Not Plumbing
Have a look at your sink after you brush your teeth or shave. There is stuff all over it that you have to clean up. You can't wash your hair in it. Alexander Kira of Cornell University looked at the
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History of the Bathroom Part 4: The Perils of Prefabrication
In 1940, Buckminster Fuller receieved Patent 2220482 for a prefabricated bathroom. Fuller wrote in his claim:
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The History of the Bathroom Part 3: Putting Plumbing Before People
The really amazing thing about this standard "bathroom" from 1915, ninety-seven years ago, is how much it looks like the standard bathrooms of today. How did it get this way, and how did we get stuck
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The History of the Bathroom Part 2: Awash In Water and Waste
In 1854 there was a major outbreak of cholera in Soho, London. Nobody knew what caused cholera, but John Snow carefully mapped the location of every victim, (documented wonderfully in Stephen Johnson's book The Ghost
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The History of the Bathroom Part 1: Before the Flush
Victor Hugo wrote in Les Miserables that "the history of men is reflected in the history of sewers."... The sewer is the conscience of the city. Everything there converges and confronts everything else. "
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P-Tree, A Panacea For Public Peeing Problems (For Men, Anyways)
We are perhaps a bit preoccupied with pee at TreeHugger. But it is valuable stuff that we just flush away, or worse, create the problem of public peeing. Rogier Martens and Sam van Veluw of AANDEBOOM have addressed the problem
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Finally, Buildings Are Going Net- Zero Water With Composting Toilets
Water and sewage piping are the arteries and veins of our cities, requiring huge investment in infrastructure and maintenance. But have the technology both to collect and clean rainwater, and deal with human waste
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The Kohler Numi: The Perfect Toilet For Your Living Room
Yes, that is a toilet, sitting in the corner of Pierre Koenig's Case Study House #22, in a reconstruction of perhaps the most famous architectural photograph ever, by the late Julius Shulman. I am excited by this new trend of
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Why Are North American Toilets So Crappy?
In France last year, I never saw a regular toilet sitting on the floor of a bathroom; they were all these gorgeous wall-hung units with the tank hidden behind the wall. Jackie Daly of KBB News explains why they have become so
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DIY Greywater Recycling in Los Angeles
We have seen great examples of safe, legal greywater systems, and we've also seen the more covert greywater guerrilla approach. Now a Los Angeles company is planning on taking greywater recycling firmly into the
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Dual-Flush Toilet Retrofit, With Adjustable Flush (Video)
Image credit: Brondell Simple Flush Dual-flush toilets have always been popular here on TreeHugger. After all, it seems insane to use the same amount of drinking water to flush your number ones as your number twos. (It actually seems insane to use
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Men: Pee And Wash In The Same Fixture!
Lenny Bruce would have had such fun with this, but this just makes so much sense, a sink built on top of a urinal! And designer Yeongwoo Kim has made it look good, too. The theoretical sequence is that you use the urinal, then wash your hands and the
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Waterless Urinals Introduced for Home Use
Sami and I have been preoccupied with pee for a long time, wondering why we don't have urinals in our homes. After all, they use a lot less water than a toilet and are probably more sanitary as it is harder to miss.
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RUBBiSH: Recycled Rubber Tire Sinks From Minarc
From Earthships and building materials, to water filters, shoes and bags, old rubber tires have long been a veritable gold mine when it comes to material reuse potential. Now Santa Monica, California-based design
