These public toilets are located at the Synergy Plaza in the Kumutoto precinct on Wellington’s waterfront
As well as taking into account practical
considerations such as security, hygiene and vandalism, the brief was to
create a structure with a sculptural form, something iconic, highly
visible and unusual that was also well integrated into the visual and
historical context ofthe surrounding precinct.
To be seen in the round, the design comprises
two elongated, irregularly curved forms, instantly recognisable from all
key pedestrian approaches and terminating a sequence of spaces and
elements along the laneway.
These organic forms, eye-catching and instantly
memorable, are suggestive of crustaceans or sea creatures, as if the
structure was a kind of fossilised husk that had been discovered and
inhabited.
Recalling the waterfront’s shipping past, they cling to the surface of the precinct like barnacles to the underside of a boat.
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