东京厕所项目（Urasando厕所）丨日本东京丨Marc Newson

Marc Newson unveils the final Tokyo Toilet project design

World-renowned Australian industrial designer

Marc Newson

has revealed his contribution to the Nippon Foundation’s ongoing

The Tokyo Toilet

public design project.

Located in the capital’s tourist-heavy

Shibuya

ward, the Urasando toilet completes the project’s offering of 17 facilities placed across the commercial district

beginning in 2020

.

The design for the public restroom was inspired by elements central to vernacular Japanese architecture. Using a copper Minoko roof common to tea rooms, shrines, and other rural spaces, the concrete structure’s form engenders a “subconscious feeling of comfort and peacefulness” while providing users with an accessible facility whose material selection will, over time, help it blend into the urban fabric of the neighborhood.

As Newson explains: “It is important to me that the Toilet feels trustworthy and honest inside and out: The bright interior is seamlessly and hygienically finished in a monochromatic green, one of my favourite colors. My design for the Toilet focuses on functionality, simplicity, and creating an inviting and enduring space.”

Newson, who has won a multitude of high-profile awards since graduating from the

University of Sydney

in 1986, joins other first-name designers and architects such as

Kengo Kuma

Nigo

, and former Pritzker Prize winners

Toyo Ito

Tadao Ando

Fumihiko Maki

Shigeru Ban

as creators of what the Foundation calls an important “step toward achieving a society that embraces diversity.”

Newson is also the only non-Japanese designer affiliated with the project. Equally noteworthy,

Tokyo-Ga

and

Alice in the Cities

director

Wim Wenders

has referred to the restrooms as a uniquely “utopian idea” and will elevate them as the setting in an untitled

forthcoming

feature film about the city.

More information, including an archive of the project, can be found

here

.