OFF-GRID TOILETS BOOK

This handbook thoroughly investigates 16 off-grid toilet systems that have been implemented across the world, to provide a comprehensive understanding of their functional principles. Through comparison and evaluation, we provide recommendations on how users’ needs can be better met and how contextual conditions can be better considered. We hope this book will be a valuable tool for governments, NGOs and communities to tackle the problems of unsafe sanitation across the globe.

RE-IMAGINING RAILWAY STATIONS: Connecting Communities

This competition was organised by RIBA and Network Rail UK, to challenge and imagine what a “station” could become in the 21st century. This international design competition is focused on new solutions for small to medium stations across the UK. There are already more than 2,000 of these, ranging from small halts to medium-sized stations. The competition’s aim is to explore designs for the interface between a 21st-century community and the rail system that can be integrated in the wide range of different suburban and rural contexts. It will interrogate the meaning of the term “station” through the design process.