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    The document proposes designs to make public toilets more humanized and accessible. It discusses: 1) Designs for accessible toilets that meet the needs of disabled users, including wider doors, space for wheelchairs to turn, and additional grab bars and handles. 2) Making accessible toilets "multi-functional" by adding amenities like baby changing stations, chairs, and lavatories for ostomy users, to increase usage. 3) Adding a detachable dressing platform in accessible toilets for women to privately change clothes or feminine products when needed. The overall goal is to make public toilets safer, more comfortable, and easy to use for all.

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    The document proposes designs to make public toilets more humanized and accessible. It discusses: 1) Designs for accessible toilets that meet the needs of disabled users, including wider doors, space for wheelchairs to turn, and additional grab bars and handles. 2) Making accessible toilets "multi-functional" by adding amenities like baby changing stations, chairs, and lavatories for ostomy users, to increase usage. 3) Adding a detachable dressing platform in accessible toilets for women to privately change clothes or feminine products when needed. The overall goal is to make public toilets safer, more comfortable, and easy to use for all.

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    The document proposes designs to make public toilets more humanized and accessible. It discusses: 1) Designs for accessible toilets that meet the needs of disabled users, including wider doors, space for wheelchairs to turn, and additional grab bars and handles. 2) Making accessible toilets "multi-functional" by adding amenities like baby changing stations, chairs, and lavatories for ostomy users, to increase usage. 3) Adding a detachable dressing platform in accessible toilets for women to privately change clothes or feminine products when needed. The overall goal is to make public toilets safer, more comfortable, and easy to use for all.

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    The proposals for Design of Humanized Public Toilet

    Frank M.H.Wu
    [email protected]. tw
    Taiwan Toilet Association, Chairman
    Professor of National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

    Abstract

    Public toilet are facilities we use everyday, but it seems to be thought of as dirty, smelly,
    and unsafe. How to eliminate this kind of image is of key importance, it deserves
    everyone’s concern and effort to amend such problem. The design priority for public
    toilet is humanization - it has to be designed with the need of user’s behavior. Secondly,
    the brightness, good ventilation and safety are important as well. Thirdly, it should be
    easy to clean and maintain. According to this understanding and based on my previous
    personal experiences of toilet designs, I would be glad to present this information to the
    benefit of our「toilet family」as a whole in the hope that it will meet with overwhelming
    support.

    Keywords
    Humanization、Safe and comfortable、Toilet behavior of disabled people、Dressing
    platform for ladies.

    Introduction
    Public toilets are places that everyone must use everyday; the distinction of toilet design
    is an issue of concern. Does it accord with our daily behavior of use or whether it is easy
    to clean? Taipei began to promote cleaning programs since 2000. In recent years,
    department stores, cinemas, restaurants, stations, markets, parks, schools, and all

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    administrative units have dedicated their utmost efforts to work on the cleanliness. The
    city implemented new plans as well, that really did make some noticeable improvement
    in public toilets. However, in the design of public toilets there remain a lot of problems
    waiting to be improved. In the following we will present some examples and discussion:

    1 Design of toilet used by disabled people


    Most of the designs for toilets used by physically
    disable people do not meet the needs of users. This is
    often because the designer did not understand the way
    in which disabled people use the toilet, and rarely have
    a chance to accompany them to go to toilet. Therefore,
    they always refer to existing information and simply
    copy old designs with little evolution or modifications.
    This is a mistake that should not be made. There are
    few criteria that we have to pay more attention to:
    (1) The door width for disable toilet should be
    90cm, preferably equipped with light manual Photo 1. The disabled toilet with a
    backrest without water tank. A
    sliding door that should not have threshold and small washbasin next to it, the
    must level with ground level. Electronic door is width of two handles is 70cm and
    apt to suffer from power failure or breakdowns, height of 65cm. (228 Park in
    Taipei)
    making most of disabled people afraid of
    being locked inside.
    (2) The disabled toilet shall have a net turn-
    around space with a diameter of 150cm to
    allow for a wheel chair to make a U-turn.
    (3) Disabled people sit on the wheelchair
    most of the time, so insufficient muscle
    movement often causes peristalsis of the
    intestines. Therefore, most suffer from
    excretion difficulties and constipation,
    they have to assist the feces out with their
    hands or use an enema, thus making
    both hands dirty and unable to wear Fig 1. A disabled toilet with small
    trousers. Consequently, a small washbasin next to the water closet, 2 sets
    of flush button, emergency bell, and paper
    washbasin is needed to fix next to the
    holders should be provided. (Note 1)
    wall beside the disabled water closet.
    (Re：Photo 1.)

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    (4) The water closet should provide a backrest without seat cover. The height of the
    water closet should be 40cm.
    (5) Handles are to assist the disabled person in using the toilet, two handles beside the
    toilet seat give support for disabled people taking off their trousers, so the height
    should be 63~65cm, and a width distance of 67~70cm to facilitate use. One of the
    suspended handles should be moveable and easy to turn, the other sidewall’s handle
    should be L-shaped (preferably length of each handle is 80cm)
    (6) The disable toilet does not need a water tank. It is better to provide a pressure flush
    with a flush button must not set behind the toilet seat, but instead placed it should be
    easy to reach and place on top of the small washbasin (height is120cm). Next to
    flush button, an emergency bell should be provided. Lastly, a toilet paper holder can
    be placed beside the small washbasin.
    (7) Because the disabled person sits on a wheelchair, they use urine pot or a catheter to
    urinate, so the sidewall next to L-shaped handle should provide another set of
    flushing buttons, toilet paper holder and emergency bell. (Re ： Fig 1). They can
    press the flush button while sitting in the wheelchair.
    (8) Minimum dimensions of the disabled toilet and its entrance-appliance relationship
    are detailed in fig 2.The required space for a disabled toilet varies with respect to
    manual and powered wheelchairs. The basic layout of the water closet and
    washbasin, and their relationship with the entrance shall be as indicated in fig2.

    2 Multi-functional disabled toilets


    The facility and related costs of a disabled toilet are very high, yet the usage frequency

    Layout of Entrance Direction A Layout of Entrance Direction B


    Manual wheelchair Powered Manual wheelchair Powered
    wheelchair X Y X Y wheelchair X Y X Y
    Min 1600 2000 2000 2000 Min. 1600 2000 2000 2200
    Ult. 1800 2000 2200 2200 Ult. 1600 2100 2000 2400
    (Unit ： mm) (Unit ： mm)
    Fig 2 . Recommended dimensions for disabled toilet and its entrance-
    appliances relationship. (Note 1) All dimensions are net dimension.

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    of most disabled toilets is extremely low. Recently, in order to increase the disabled
    toilet usage frequency, there was an international trend of incorporating baby toilet, baby
    chairs, diaper tables, artificial-anus feces lavatories etc. into a disabled toilet so that it
    becomes multi-functional; it is no longer a disabled toilet only but a parent-child-toilet
    and an artificial-anus-toilet as well so that its usage is expanded. This configuration has
    been termed the “Multi-use Toilet”
    With these 3 items installed, the disabled toilet
    or “Universal Toilet”.
    is facilitated with Parent-Child toilet functions.
    A disabled toilet can incorporate a (Re：Fig 3.)
    variety of facilities to become a
    universal one:
    (1) Diaper Table (baby bed)
    (2) Baby Chair.
    (3) Child’s water closet or urinal.
    (4) Artificial anus feces lavatory – A feces lavatory can be added to a disabled toilet for

    Fig 3.Added with baby toilet, baby Fig 4. A multi functional toilet with
    artificial anus feces lavatory
    chair, and infant bed to become a
    family toilet

    the use of Ostomates or artificial bladder users; this


    lavatory is preferably fit with a detachable warm water
    rinse faucet on top of it. Additionally, there should be a
    flip-open trashcan for disposing used urinal bags. A
    dressing mirror and some hangers shall be installed on
    the wall. (Re: Fig 4)
    (9) Dressing platform for women – if a women’s
    menstrual period comes when she is shopping in a
    Photo 2. A disable toilet
    department store or in a park, it is very inconvenient if provides with dressing
    platform for ladies (228
    they change their clothes in a water closet compartment. Park in Taipei)

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    A detachable platform of size 60 ×60 cm on a wall (under Baby Bed) in a disabled
    toilet would be preferable for them to lock up the disable toilet door and change
    clothes privately. A specific changing room is equally preferable, but must be
    equipped with a basin. (Re: Photo2 & Fig 6)

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