SEMiLLA Sanitainer: From shipping container to circular sanitation solution in Ghana

Poor sanitation is a challenge around the world, more than 2 billion people lack access to basic sanitary facilities like a toilet. In Ghana, it is estimated 25% of children under the age of five die because of diarrhea. A disease that often can be prevented by providing hygienic sanitation facilities. Tackling the problem across the whole of...

Improving toilet posture: Design of an adjustable toilet footrest

It is time to break the taboo on something that every person does every day: excretion. Using the toilet for micturition and defecation is familiar to everyone. However, discussing personal troubles with going to the toilet is frowned upon. Constipation complaints and urine retention are common, especially among the elderly. There are multiple...

Towards a smart bathroom maid

The topic of this project is exploring design directions towards a smart private-bathroom service/product. It is often the case that a bathroom is used by multiple people after each other. An unclean bathroom environment can hinder the user experience. The shared bathroom also involves a peak usage issue. These two points will cause...

The Subversion of Expectations: Architecture and the subversion of expectations, methods and parameters.

Society is stuck in daily routines, led by social norms and conventions. Often we are unaware of this, while life can be much richter if we would subvert from these routines every once in a while. These routines prevent us from seeing everything that there is. Our expectations need to be subverted. <br/><br/>Usually it is reserved for artists to...

Design of Olla-on-the-Move: Toilet for Chemotherapy Bodily Waste Containment

The topic of this graduation project is the design of “Olla-on-the-Move”, the name given to a toilet on the move, for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. Working together with the host company, Pharmafilter B.V., the starting point was to design a product or product-service system to “[p]rovide a hygienic and dignified program of care for...

Stand-alone sanitary toilet for Guarani people living in rural communities of Bolivia

Sanitation is a taken for granted theme in most of the Western Country, but it is a serious issue nowadays. We can count on modern water supply systems and efficient sewage systems but only few of us know what is happening in remote areas of the underdeveloped countries. Sanitation is a central matter for people living in rural areas, where the...

A new sanitation system for slums in urban dense areas

Around 2.6 billion people in the world do not have access to proper sanitation solutions, leading to many social, economical and health related problems. This report elaborates on “Clean Alliance” a product-service-system based in the provision of adaptable toilet booth availability supported by a waste processing Mini Multi Product Plant (MMPP)...

Natura: Making the toilet more water efficient

The present project is about making the toilet more water efficient. Standard toilets use 15 times more drinking water per day than a human does. The proposed concept is a toilet based on the waste separation principle. Considering that each type of human waste requires different amount of water to be flushed away, the new toilet adapts to male...

Tidy up the Train Toilet - design of the MooVe concept

This report describes the research and design process resulting into „MooVe?, a train toilet concept designed to increase user involvement in maintaining toilet cleanliness. As a master thesis project, the process was carried out at the Product Development department of NS [Dutch Railways] in Utrecht. » The department sets new train...

Design of the Marine Toilet

This report describes the development of the new Vetus marine toilet concept proposal, the Fix&GO, for the Dutch aftermarket of do-it-yourself small cabin motor yacht owners. The Fix&GO marine toilet combines comfort, cleanability and serviceability in a unique way. It brings comfort into the limited marine lavatory while also providing ease and...

A strategy on how to implement public toilets

On average, each person visits the toilet 8 times a day. Each day, 15 minutes are spend on a toilet. Therefore no one can deny the important role of toilets. This project scrutinizes toilets in public spaces. The development of mass produced cheap material public toilets, placed at the wrong locations, has lead to many problems. Problems such as...