Toilet architecture

Components in toilet design

Ar.Mohafiz Riyaz
Assistant professor
V-SPARC, VIT University
Factors to be considered

Type of usage
Location
Service layout
Materials
Client lifestyle
Appropriate fixtures
Layout –Dry and wet

Public toilet design at Tokyo by

Tadao Ando
Dry and wet area

Toilet design Toilet design

Dry area Wet area

Washbasin Shower area

Water closet Bath tub

Bidet Shower cabin

Typical toilet layout
What is a tile drop?
Behind the surface

Pipe lines
Interspersed within civil work

Pipe diameter

Water supply

Waste lines

Toilet ducts
Recent innovation in toilet design

Modern day toilets

Social context

Materials/Sanitary
fixtures

Waterless
toilets/Urinals

High-tech design
Waterless toilets

No flush toilets

Water
conservation

Composting toilets

Nano membrane
toilet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A47slzMItAI
Sophisticated design

• Transparent toilet walls to

opaque automatically
• Public toilet design at Tokyo by
Ar. Shigeru Ban
References

https://www.hunker.com/12590703/different-size-toilet-flanges

https://onepointpartitions.com/blog/2017/03/08/toilets-around-
globe/

https://www.homify.sg/ideabooks/2896835/16-ways-to-separate-
wet-and-dry-areas-in-your-bathroom

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/aug/18/tokyo-
toilets-may-be-transparent-but-at-least-theyre-building-some

https://www.cranfield.ac.uk/case-studies/research-case-
studies/nano-membrane-toilet

https://images.livemint.com/r/LiveMint/Period1/2014/06/18/Photos
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