This Bengaluru Boy Created New Public Toilets That Can Automatically Adjust To Suit Everyone

2,500 students competed for the Nippon Paint 2019 Asia Young Designer Awards (Indian edition), 21 were cherry-picked, and only one gets the highest honor.

The student who held this year’s design award is Ullas M from Bengaluru. His idea is to redesign public toilets to make them user and eco-friendly. According to Ullas, he wanted to revolutionize the concept of public washrooms and turn them into barrier-free toilets.

Ullas said that he got the idea from a college assignment. He has visited public toilets in the city and at a metro station and found out two majors issues. First, the foul smell of the place and second, the toilets are not designed for people of different ables and genders.

What Ullas M did is to design public toilet pods with sensors on the façade to estimate the height of the user. The information will be used to adjust the height of the floor so that it is suitable for more people. Another highlight of the design is the foldable ramps to assist people in wheelchairs.

Explaining how his design is eco-friendly, he explained that the toilet was powered by solar energy, harvested by the equipped solar funnels. The energy will also be used to provide light at night.

When it rains, the funnels will also channel the water to the pod and recharge the groundwater. Under the pod is a compost tank to turn waste into compost.

Ullas is now talking with several corporations to implement his idea, which will effetely take time.

Ullas’s plan is to present the benefits at more platforms. He said that since the reinvented toilets are cost-effective, they can be implemented in many communities, who can later claim ownership and maintain them.

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