Japanese fashion designer Nigo has designed a public toilet in the shape of a small home as the latest addition to the Tokyo Toilet project.
Built in the Harajuku district of central Tokyo, the house-shaped toilet was designed to stand out from the surrounding high-rise buildings.
Nigo designed the toilet to look like a house
"In contrast to the ever-changing city of Tokyo with its sky-high buildings, I envisioned a toilet that feels like a good old home that stands quietly on a corner of Harajuku," explained Nigo.
"The toilet may feel nostalgic to some and new to others, depending on their age and generation."
Its form contrasts the neighbouring high-rises
Nigo, who is the founder of the A Bathing Ape clothing brand and has designed for Adidas and Louis Vuitton, designed the facility as part of the Nippon Foundation's Tokyo Toilet project. His toilet joins blocks in the city's Shibuya area designed by Pritzker Architecture Prize winners Tadao Ando, Shigeru Ban and Fumihiko Maki.
The roof, windows and picket fence recall a 1940s home
For his design, Nigo was directly informed by a housing development of pitched roof, single storey homes that were built in the area by the United States Armed Forces after world war two.
"My inspiration for the design of this toilet is the Washington Heights Dependent Housing, which was a large housing complex built by the US in 1946 in an area that has now become Yoyogi Park," he said.
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