SOTO KANGEI 公厕也禅宗

“SOTO KANGEI” Toilets at CASA DECOR Madrid 2012 by  “Egue y Seta”

INFORMATION

Project
“SOTO KANGEI” Toilets at CASA DECOR Madrid 2012 by  “Egue y Seta”

Designers
Egue y Seta www.egueyseta.com
Daniel Pérez + Felipe Araujo + Mario Vila

Area
17m2

Completed date
2012

Location
Plaza de España nº8  (Madrid)

Photographer
Víctor Hugo www.vicugo.com

 

"Soto kangei" or "Welcome outside" poses an invitation to visit an "outodoorsy
interior” . A hygienic / service facility that was, in spite of its private and
intimate nature, treated as a public space and a mute white shelter amid the
multiple stylistic proposals that overlap themselves at Casa Decor:  An indoor
oasis that aims to make the visitors travel to a distant Zen garden through a
peculiar arrangement of greenery and a powerful illumination scheme, but most
importantly, by treating its envelope as a series of white, geometric, urban
façades.

Once inside the toilets gardens sprout like moss over beds of gravel, fall down
from false skylights on the roof, and multiplied themselves in a series of mirror
reflections blended in with iconic Japanese prints covering the walls.

"The Great Wave" from Kanagawa, along with an “engraved” japanese Koy fish are
graphically translated into the language of the tiles, adding new layers of
meaning upon the space: An original envelope that provides the room with a touch
of vibrant colour and a hint of visual texture complemented by the ultra-modern
sanitary furniture created by Boing.