Architect shigeru ban designed the bathroom in a way to reassure anyone entering the toilet.
Working for shigeru ban glass door.
The glass walls of ban s new public bathrooms turn opaque when people enter and lock the door.
So basically as long as the door is locked.
But the new stalls designed by shigeru ban the pritzker prize winning architect are made out of an opacity changing smart glass that is already used in offices and other buildings.
Let me tell you the toilet walls are made of smart glass.
As soon as the door is locked however the glass becomes completely.
The covid 19 pandemic has shigeru ban reimagining tokyo s public toilets.
The so called transparent toilets which opened this month were designed by award winning japanese architect shigeru ban for a project organized by the nippon foundation that redesigned a total.
Estate of the art technology that turns opaque the exterior glass when the doors have.
The tokyo toilet project took the help of architect shigeru ban to fulfill their vision.
The glass walls turn opaque when in use.