The initiative of the all gender restroom is to “achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls” (SDG5), the design needs to consider users of all genders, the elderly, the disabled, and parent-child groups. It is hoped that the completion of the improvement of this case can become an example of new public facility of New Taipei City, and carry on the Sustainable Development Goals. The public toilet project is located on the east and west wings of the ground floor of the New Taipei City Government Civic Plaza. We believe that public toilets are important and it must be suitable for everyone, not a few individuals. Therefore, the design of public toilets requires good planning and careful thinking to transform the original module into an innovative one.
In terms of visual design and color selection, in order to break the stereotypical color choices, such as baby blue and pink to separate men and women, a neutral gray is chosen for the partitions, and four colors are used in the toilet to enhance the recognition. Large areas of white ceilings and floors, combined with indirect and direct lighting, make the public toilets bright and safe. The curved washbasin in front of the green wall not only represents centripetal force, but also sets up children’s washbasins for families to use together. We look forward to a better and simpler toilet design can solve public safety and public health problems, and also provide needs for people with special needs, avoiding the embarrassment of gender divisions when parents bring their children to use public toilets. This is not only a Gender-Neutral Design, but also an Inclusive Design (a design for all ages) that is suitable for the elderly to infants, providing a better and more secure public toilet.
