Friday, February 12, 2010

Let's talk about layout...

Yes lets. The men's bathroom has a single urinal. Pictured here:


In this picture you can also see one of the two stalls that are available. Here's my issue: putting this urinal this close to the door of the stall has thus negated the purpose or function of this urinal. When you are using it you can't help but worry that if someone comes in and needs to use the stall they'll squeeze by you like a man in a crowded subway car. This worry and anxiety inherently causes a grown man to be unable to release a steady stream, thus lengthening the time spent at the urinal, which adversely increases the amount of time you have to worry about another person coming in, which causes you more anxiety and eventually you are unable to do anything but do your best impression of a man with an enlarged prostate.

If you're going to design a bathroom let's spread the wealth around... or at least make them parallel. But placing the urinal at a perpendicular angle to the stall door (not to mention mere inches from the stall door) makes the act of urinating an awful, anxiety ridden horrorshow.

Let's think about layout the next time we build a bathroom shall we?

2 comments:

  1. What's up with the paper towel dispensers? I always see like 10 paper towels hanging halfwya out of the dispenser. Then when I try to take one out, not only do the other 9 hanging paper towels fall out, but another 20 or so on top of that. They fall right out of the dispenser and into the trash receptable underneath. Good design!

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  2. Considering that it is thought to be private and tranquil, it does not take a great deal of effort to really give it a makeover. just make sure that it would not look very close put some distance

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