09 What trends are leading commercial washroom design?

The Kitchen & Bathroom Design Podcast

We’re going all out bathrooms in today’s episode and in particular we’re looking at the wider trends that are influencing design in the commercial washroom sector.

Even you’re a residential designer this is really worth looking into as there’s no doubt that commercial bathroom design – offices, hotels, gyms etc – is heavily influencing residential design.

Ideal Standard has commissioned a really interesting report on this looking at how social-life work patterns, demographics, sustainability and technology are influencing the way we look at bathrooms and how they fit into our lives.

In particular, it looks at how the needs – and therefore designs - of domestic and commercial bathrooms are merging. In fact, this report says 70% of people want the same quality and experience from their workplace washroom as from their bathroom at home.

So even if you’re primarily a residential designer, you need to be very aware of the influence commercial bathrooms are going to have on your work.

Ideal Standard launched this report – called Creating Better Commercial Washrooms – at a recent event at their new showroom in Clerkenwell in London. They gathered together a very illustrious panel of experts for the event and we managed to sit down with them before they started.

• Dr. Saul Golden – architect, academic and author of the report
• Libby Sellers – design historian, consultant, curator and writer
• Robin Levien – Legendary Ideal Standard designer
• Hsi Sung Thomas – architect and designer

Here’s a link to the full Ideal Standard ‘Creating Better Commercial Washrooms’ report:
https://www.kbbreview.com/downloads/Armitage_Print_Ready_Whitepaper_221019.pdf

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