Can You Believe What They Did With Shipping Containers?

Nov 22, 2017 • Mike Field

The shipping container: an incredible tool to revitalize neighborhoods and urban centers.

MAKE LIFE COMFORTABLE FOR PEDESTRIANS BY OPENING A PUBLIC RESTROOM

Caltech and Kohler teamed up to produce a safe, cheap and hygienic public toilet that could be deployed in urban environments throughout the world. The project received financial backing from the Gates Foundation’s Reinvent the Toilet Challenge in 2012, and deployed units to India starting in late 2013. The toilet is completely self-contained, does not require a connection to the sewer and can treat its own wastewater in under six hours. For urban environments that lack public restrooms, the shipping container may prove to be an inexpensive and efficient way to make the public realm more useful.

Photo Credit: www.kohler.com

Compiled by Mike Field