Re-Designing Sanitation

Weʼve come a long way in the design phase of Project Sammaan! We started out by identifying innovation opportunities and then crafted a list of aspirations to design for. These included basic objectives such as reducing zones of filth and enforcing rules of use, but also factored in larger goals like shifting the user’s perception of the facility to something positive.This led to two weeks of comprehensive brainstorming sessions with experts from Biome Environmental Solutions, Sushant School of Art & Architecture, and our partners Studio Miscellanea and Anagram Architects.

Brainstorming session in our Gurgaon office.

These sessions at our Gurgaon studio generated over 170 ideas for features within the facilities. Each of these was then detailed and rated on various parameters, with the focus always remaining user-centered.This master list of features and principles will serve as the home base for spinning off briefs all design work streams (architectural, product/component, branding/communication, etc).

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