The Green Flush By R. Likitha & Tejaswini Suresh
Diploma in Interior Design
Public toilets. They are anything but glamorous, vaguely functional. Often basic and inconsistent in cleanliness, with some well-maintained modern facilities in urban areas, but many rural or roadside ones lacking hygiene, supplies, and proper upkeep. Likitha and Tejaswini? Did not like the situation either. They decided to step up and take the responsibility to right this wrong.
Their main goal was to make sure that you did not want to run away immediately when you stepped into a public washroom. Making it feel like a place you might want to be for more than a second. They went with a circular plan—more welcoming than the usual grim corridors people are used to—and split the entirety into four zones. You have your privacy and access, but the best part is this sweet little courtyard right in the middle. It’s all sunshine, plants, and benches. That makes you want to sit for a minute.
They didn’t settle for just clean. They got biophilic with it—vertical gardens, leafy planters, bits of nature in the middle of the city’s concrete chaos. The design even pulls off some serious cultural throwbacks. There’s also something familiar about the starburst layout, echoing classical elements of Indian and Islamic architecture, but without the ancient plumbing
These toilets do not make you want to hold your breath and run first but definitely make you want to linger more. Public bathroom as micro-plaza. You could take a beat, chat with a friend, people-watch, and feel like a person instead of a number in a queue.
It’s proof that good design can make public spaces feel a little less grim and a lot more human. Which we could all use right now.
They didn’t settle for just clean. They got biophilic with it—vertical gardens, leafy planters, bits of nature in the middle of the city’s concrete chaos. The design even pulls off some serious cultural throwbacks. There’s also something familiar about the starburst layout, echoing classical elements of Indian and Islamic architecture, but without the ancient plumbing
These toilets do not make you want to hold your breath and run first but definitely make you want to linger more. Public bathroom as micro-plaza. You could take a beat, chat with a friend, people-watch, and feel like a person instead of a number in a queue.
It’s proof that good design can make public spaces feel a little less grim and a lot more human. Which we could all use right now.
