We’re going all out bathrooms in today’s episode and in particular we’re looking at the wider trends that are influencing design in the commercial washroom sector.
Even you’re a residential designer this is really worth looking into as there’s no doubt that commercial bathroom design – offices, hotels, gyms etc – is heavily influencing residential design.
Ideal Standard has commissioned a really interesting report on this looking at how social-life work patterns, demographics, sustainability and technology are influencing the way we look at bathrooms and how they fit into our lives.
In particular, it looks at how the needs – and therefore designs – of domestic and commercial bathrooms are merging. In fact, this report says 70% of people want the same quality and experience from their workplace washroom as from their bathroom at home.
So even if you’re primarily a residential designer, you need to be very aware of the influence commercial bathrooms are going to have on your work.
Ideal Standard launched this report – called Creating Better Commercial Washrooms – at a recent event at their new showroom in Clerkenwell in London. They gathered together a very illustrious panel of experts for the event and we managed to sit down with them before they started.
- Dr. Saul Golden – architect, academic and author of the report
- Libby Sellers – design historian, consultant, curator and writer
- Robin Levien – Legendary Ideal Standard designer
- Hsi Sung Thomas – architect and designer
Here’s a link to the full Ideal Standard ‘Creating Better Commercial Washrooms’ report:
http://www.kbbreview.com/downloads/Armitage_Print_Ready_Whitepaper_221019.pdf
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