Urban Public Toilet Cabins
Public toilets in public spaces are an essential infrastructure to guarantee hygiene, convenience, and public health in cities. To ensure they are truly useful and do not become hotspots for unsanitary conditions or insecurity, these automated cabins must be designed prioritising universal accessibility, ease of maintenance, vandalism resistance and safety. The objective is to ensure that any citizen can use them with autonomy and dignity while moving around the city.
- Design a step-free access with sufficient interior space for a wheelchair to turn (minimum diameter of 1.50 m) and provide grab rails and adapted washbasins.
- Incorporate automatic cleaning and disinfection mechanisms for the toilet and floor after each use, ensuring sanitary conditions for the next user.
- Install sensor-activated lighting, non-slip flooring, an easily accessible interior emergency button and doors that unlock automatically after a maximum usage time to prevent incidents.
- Visibly display simple instructions for use, universal pictograms, Braille information and clear indicator lights (green/red) showing the cabin’s status on the exterior.
- Even though they are automated, establish daily manual review and cleaning protocols to replenish consumables (paper, soap) and verify correct mechanical and electronic operation.