toilet for the Greenwich pier
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 001                                    Health is by nature anxious, it involves a process of checking your body, listening, worrying, and fulfilling some kind of intervention to repair the issue at hand. This public toilet exemplifies this anxiety through its construction where the walls of the toilet slowly peel back in response to pollution in the Thames, acting as a 'canary in the wharf' for passers by or users of the toilet.

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The final model outcome is designed as such so that it becomes a wearable face mask at 1 to 50 scale, but a usable public toilet at full scale, both showing the dynamic reciprocity of health

 003                                    The toilet would be floating in the Thames, next to the Greenwich pier over a hidden effluent pipe that Thames water uses to pollute the Thames with sewage during peak times. In 2024 alone it polluted 277 hours of sewage into the river. The building would float above this, collecting the sewage and providing a public indication of this waste, a visualisation of the poor and broken water practices in the UK.

 004                                    The final model is made out of water jet cut mild steel, 3D printed elements, latex, paper, wire and acrylic. The model is articulated to allow itself to open up to the skies in response to the collection bays becoming weighted due to collection of sewage based on an initial paper model

 005                                   The project started as an exploration of the relationship between health and architecture, where I started by looking at the spread of disease and architecture that coincided with the discovery of microbes by Louis Pasteur, and the modernist movement that stressed hygiene. I created a series hygiene devices to treat all human waste. This all began with a floating hospital in Greenwich called the 'Dreadnought' a ship used to treat ill and injured sailors, where it would float in the middle of the Thames to help prevent the spread of contagion.