San Francisco ’s streets are getting glossy new additions : futurist - lookingpublictoilets . Co. Designreports that San Francisco ’s Department of Public Works haschosena new design for ego - clean street toilets by the architectural firmSmithGroupJJRthat will eventually replace the city ’s current public toilets .
The design is a arrant dividing line to the current San Francisco can aesthetical , a green knockoff of Paris’sSanisettes . ( They ’re made by the same company that pioneered the Parisian variant , JCDecaux . ) The tall , curvy silver pod , called AmeniTREES , are top with green roof garden designed to pull together rainwater that can then be used to flush the toilet and clean the kiosks themselves . They come in several unlike variation , including a undivided or double bathroom unit , one with bench , a street kiosk that can be used for retail or data services , and a design that can be topped by a tree . The marquee also have elbow room for exterior advertising .
“ The blueprint blends sculpture with technology in a way that conceptually , and literally , reflects San Francisco ’s unique neighborhoods , ” the firm ’s design corpus , Bill Katz , explain in a press statement . “ Together , the wide-ranging kiosks and public lavatory aim will also tell a sustainability story through water re - use of goods and services and aboriginal landscapes . ”
San Francisco has a majorstreet - poopproblem , in part due to its large homeless population . The city has thesecond biggesthomeless universe in the country , behind New York City , and datum collectedin 2017shows that the city has around 7500 people living on its street . Though the metropolis jump roll out sidewalk commodesin 1996 , it does n’t have nearly enoughpublic toiletsto match demand . There are only 28public toiletsacross the city right now , fit in totheSan Francisco Chronicle .
These design are n’t ready to go direct into construction first — the designers have to work with JCDeaux , which instal the city ’s toilets , to adapt them “ to the realities of construction and sustainment , ” as theChronicleputs it . Then , those architectural plan will have to be submitted to the metropolis ’s arts commission and historical saving commission before they can be installed .
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