Designed by architects together with Tadao Ando and Kengo Kuma, the Tokyo Rest room undertaking kinds the backdrop for the Oscar-nominated movie Excellent Days. Right here, Dezeen rounds up all 17 services.
The Tokyo Rest room undertaking brings collectively 17 public bathrooms within the metropolis’s Shibuya district, created by architects and designers over the previous six years.
Commissioned by The Nippon Basis as “a logo of Japan’s world-renowned hospitality tradition”, the distinctive services at the moment are the topic of Excellent Days, an Oscar-nominated movie by German filmmaker Wim Wenders that follows the every day lifetime of a neighborhood janitor who cleans the bathrooms – performed by Kōji Yakusho.
Following the film’s launch and within the run-up to the 2024 Oscars ceremony on 10 March, Dezeen has rounded up all 17 of the Tokyo Bathrooms, which their designers say have been created with security, cleanliness and inclusivity in thoughts.
Rest room, Higashi Sanchome, by Nao Tamura
Designer Nao Tamura took cues from Origata – the normal Japanese gift-wrapping technique and a nod to hospitality – when creating this crimson public rest room on a triangular plot within the metropolis’s Higashi Sanchome space.
The construction, which launched the Tokyo Rest room undertaking, incorporates a wheelchair-accessible lavatory and separate female and male bathrooms.
Tamura used vibrant crimson for the steel shell to make the block seen and undertaking a “sense of urgency”.
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Rest room, Yoyogi Fukamachi Mini Park, by Shigeru Ban
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban designed a pair of colored glass bathrooms with clear partitions to allow these approaching to verify whether or not they’re in use.
When occupied, the bathrooms’ tinted facades grow to be opaque for privateness. One of many rectilinear buildings was clad in shades of orange, pink and purple and is positioned within the metropolis’s Yoyogi Fukamachi Mini Park.
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Toilet, Haru-no-Ogawa Neighborhood Park, by Shigeru Ban
Ban’s second rest room is positioned a brief stroll from the primary within the Haru-no-Ogawa Neighborhood Park, however options blue and inexperienced partitions to enrich the encircling timber.
Every facility contains three separate cubicles – a male, feminine and accessible rest room – which have been divided by mirrored partitions.
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Squid Rest room, Ebisu East Park, by Fumihiko Maki
Dubbed “Squid Rest room”, this public restroom was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Fumihiko Maki.
The four-volume construction was constructed for use as a spot for individuals to relaxation in addition to a bathroom and incorporates a compact courtyard at its centre, which is shaded by a skinny, curved white roof.
Situated in Ebisu East Park – often known as “Octopus Park” for its octopus-shaped crimson slide – the bathroom was created to stress the realm’s current playfulness.
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Fashionable Kawaya, Ebisu Park, by Wonderwall
Prehistoric Japanese huts served as the start line for this public rest room in Ebisu Park, created by inside design studio Wonderwall.
A maze of 15 board-marked concrete partitions encloses the ability, which references Japan’s primitive kawaya huts that have been traditionally used as bathrooms.
Female and male bathrooms, in addition to a unisex cubicle with services for baby-changing and disabled customers, have been included within the design.
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Amayadori, Jingu-Dori Park, by Tadao Ando
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Ando wrapped this round public rest room in a wall comprised of vertical steel louvres, which permit for privateness but in addition air circulation.
An angled, overhanging roof shelters the multi-cubicled construction that’s nestled amongst cherry timber within the metropolis’s Jingu-Dori Park.
“It was very important for me to make an area that was comfy and protected,” defined Ando, who referred to as the bathroom Amayadori – which means rain shelter in Japanese.
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Andon, Nishihara Itchome Park, by Takenosuke Sakakura
Three unisex bathrooms that glow after darkish have been designed by architect Takenosuke Sakakura, who additionally imprinted tree patterns on the buildings’ frosted glass facades.
Named Andon after the Japanese phrase for lantern, the block was created to offer protected and alluring services for nighttime customers and “enhance the picture of not solely the restroom however your complete park,” mentioned Sakakura.
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A Stroll within the Woods, Nabeshima Shoto Park, by Kengo Kuma
A Stroll within the Woods is a cedar-clad public restroom designed by architect Kuma to mix with its park environment.
Related by a stepped walkway, the bathroom is break up into 5 particular person huts that have been created to accommodate the wants of “a various vary of individuals,” based on Kuma.
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Rest room, Jingumae, by Nigo
Sandwiched between high-rise buildings, this public rest room was created by clothier Nigo to face out.
The playful restroom was made within the form of a small home with a red-pitched roof, blue-framed home windows and three chimney-style components.
Partly surrounded by a white picket fence, the bathroom design takes cues from a former Tokyo housing improvement constructed by america Armed Forces after the second world warfare.
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Rest room, Yoyogi-Hachiman, by Toyo Ito
A trio of mushroom-like bathrooms kind Pritzker Prize-winning architect Toyo Ito’s contribution to the city-wide undertaking.
The ability, which changed a former rest room block positioned on the backside of a flight of steps main as much as the Shibuya district’s Yoyogi Hachimangu shrine, references mushrooms that develop within the close by forest.
Ito broke the bathrooms into three separate areas to attempt to make the ability a protected place for all of its customers.
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Rest room, Ebusi Station, by Kashiwa Sato
Graphic designer Kashiwa Sato, who created the model technique for Japanese clothes retailer Uniqlo, constructed this boxy rest room from white aluminium louvres.
5 rest room blocks, which weren’t delineated by gender, have been inserted into the intense and clean-looking facility. The bathroom was positioned exterior Tokyo’s bustling Ebusi Station as a “neighbourhood image,” defined Sato.
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Hello Rest room, Nanago Dori Park, by Kazoo Sato
Voice instructions management capabilities together with the door, rest room flush, faucets and ambient music inside designer Kazoo Sato’s hemispherical white rest room in Nanago Dori Park.
Sato designed the Hello Rest room to problem the stereotype of darkish and unhygienic public restrooms. That includes an accessible rest room and urinals, the ability incorporates a hemispherical kind that was chosen to boost inside airflow.
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Rest room, Urasando, by Marc Newson
Industrial designer Marc Newson was knowledgeable by historic Japanese temples and tea rooms when creating this facility with a historically formed copper roof.
Newson’s “reliable and trustworthy” concrete design options males’s and ladies’s bathrooms positioned on both facet of a central disabled rest room and is positioned below a raised freeway to the north of Yoyogi Park.
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Rest room, Hiroo East Park, by Tomohito Ushiro
A big gentle panel options on the facade of this rest room, which shows 7.9 billion totally different gentle patterns referencing the world’s inhabitants on the level the undertaking was conceived.
Created by graphic designer Tomohito Ushiro, the rectilinear restroom incorporates two sq. unisex rest room cubicles with child chairs and altering stations. Ushiro envisaged the construction to be “a bit of public artwork”.
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Rest room, Hatagaya, by Miles Pennington and DLX Design Lab
Designer Miles Pennington and the College of Tokyo’s DLX Design Lab collaborated to create a bathroom that can be utilized as an exhibition house, cinema, pop-up kiosk, info centre or public assembly place.
A male rest room and unisex cubicles have been organized round a big coated space. Throughout the block, there are expansive white partitions designed to hold artworks or have movies projected onto them.
“This can be a neighborhood house that occurs to have bathrooms too,” mentioned Pennington, who’s a professor of design-led innovation on the college.
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Rest room, Sasazuka Greenway, by Junko Kobayashi
Weathering metal cylinders kind specialist rest room designer Junko Kobayashi’s contribution to the undertaking, which was topped with a vibrant yellow disc.
Set beneath the Sasazuka metro station within the metropolis centre, the construction options numerous cubicles for males, girls and kids with a sequence of spherical holes reduce into them revealing graphics of bunnies.
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Rest room, Nishisando, by Sou Fujimoto
Architect Sou Fujimoto designed the ultimate instalment of the Tokyo Rest room undertaking within the metropolis’s downtown space.
Characterised by an elongated communal handwashing space with totally different peak faucets, the all-white facility’s sinuous curves have been created to resemble an outsized sink.
Fujimoto’s construction incorporates bathrooms for males, girls and kids which can be related by an open-air hall in order that “everybody from kids to older individuals can wash their arms inside this vessel,” mentioned the architect.
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The pictures is by Satoshi Nagare, courtesy of The Nippon Basis.
