Lapee female urinal designed to reduce festival loo queues
Gina Périer and Alexander Egebjerg have designed an industrial-standard female toilet for festivals and outdoor events that allows people to pee sitting down quickly and safely.
Named Lapee, the pink plastic structure has three urinals arranged in a spiral, with curving back rests that provide privacy while allowing the user to remain aware of their surroundings.
Périer and Egebjerg designed Lapee to create more gender equality at outdoor events, where women are often left queuing for loos with doors while men can use urinals.
Lapee is sturdy, easy to transport and easy to clean.
"We had observed that there had been some tests for women's urinals before, but they were always installations or something put together on site ? nothing fully industrialised, nothing scalable," said Périer, a French architect based in Copenhagen.
The designers studied the form of male urinals to create a solution for people who need to sit down to urinate ? a position that leaves people more vulnerable.
"Guys have to be covered only from the front and the female has to be covered from front and back," Périer told Dezeen. "Because it's a urinal to be intimate enough for people to pee, but it has to be not too intimate."
Périer believes that the urinals, which do not having doors, have a raised the seat and walls that are low enough that users can see over without people being able to look in, are safer than standard outdoor toilets.
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