Garden Toilet

Honorable Mention for Building—Student

Garden Toilet

This is a small project designed as a temporary "public convenience" structure to provide the public with bathrooms and showers at on-site events. The walls are tall enough to provide basic privacy. The structure's hollow walls can be filled with natural materials (fallen leaves, pebbles, stone) or reclaimed materials (bottles and cans). The shower screens are made of layers of overlapping of bamboo to maximize privacy while creating openness and ventilation. The building can be taken down easily and some of the materials can be returned to nature.

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About the Entrant

Caijin Huang

Caijin Huang, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Caijin is currently pursuing her Master of Architecture in National University of Singapore (NUS) and graduate in 2010. She graduated with a Diploma in Architecture in 2006 from Singapore Polytechnic, and Bachelors’ of Architecture in 2009 from NUS. She looked forward to graduating and working with architecture firm interested on Sustainability and Zero-energy building.