Foo - See-Through Loo

THE SWISS HAVE DONE IT

Here's a picture of a public toilet in Switzerland that's made entirely out of one-way glass. No one can see you in there, but when you are inside, it looks like you're sitting in a clear glass box.

Looks like this from the inside...

and looks like this from the outside.

That was too weird...I had to find out if it's true, so:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/toilet.asp

I saw this place on tv a while back.

At the West Coast hot spot Club Sugar, hipsters come to groove and to get their groove on. When checking out the dance floor's eye candy grows dull, sexy singles move the flirting into a new venue — the bathrooms.
Club Sugar's restrooms have been designed with a greater purpose in mind: eyeing up the opposite sex. Colored Plexiglas doors enclose the adjacent guys' and gals' loos and occasionally grant guests an unexpected peep show.

Purposely unmarked doors lend to the confusion; men and women stumble into the other's bathroom — not always accidentally! After entering the proper potty, the flirting is far from over.

Tucked into the wall between the two bathrooms appears to be a fish tank, which in reality is a direct view through to both restrooms.

If peering through fish tanks seems too subtle, the bold and beautiful can inspect the opening over the acrylic counter — it's a bona fide peephole!

two words ... "stage freight!"

two words ... "stage freight!"
Why would you have goods carried by a vessel or vehicle, especially by a commercial carrier, otherwise known as cargo on a stage?http://img9.exs.cx/img9/8105/14confused.gif:D

Night time with passing cares with lights? I definately wouldn't use it during the twilight hours :)

I'm still trying to figure out who decided we even needed anything like that.

I'm still trying to figure out who decided we even needed anything like that.
It's a psychology experiment/artwork

It's a psychology experiment/artwork

It would have to be. I mean, is it really that hard to wait until you've finished taking a dump before you look out the window?

All I know is I would point and grin every time I passed by on the off chance that someone would be in it. :D

I have no problems going to the bathroom in public.

I have no problems going to the bathroom in public.

Yes, I know. Now please come clean up the 'gift' you left in my front yard. :)

That would be odd....

On another note, I would have to resist the urge to rub my still clothed butt on the glass, just to annoy anyone inside.

Why would anyone want the illusion of relieving themselves in full public view? To conquer some sort of fear or phobia? I have no difficulty being naked in public, but I don't really need to be defecating where anybody can just look. Nutty concept.

it's Art, so Don't Question It or you're a Philistine!

;)

seriously, I think it's a great idea. anything that gets a person to think or feel something entirely, entirely new (without necessarily traumatising too many people) is a Good Thing, IMO.

cheers,

-alex.

anything that gets a person to think or feel something entirely, entirely new (without necessarily traumatising too many people) is a Good Thing, IMO.


I heartily agree.
Even down to the small things; on occasion I'll deliberately alter my routines just to remind myself that I am alive. I know a few people who are so set in their ways, it would turn their world upside down to do one thing out of order for one day.

But I still wouldn't want to take a dump feeling like I'm on display...

heh, if we had one of those around here, i'd just stand there and pretend i could see in, then stare at the person inside and laugh and all.

My dad went to some weird restaraunt, in the Northern Territory or Western Australia, forget where, and the urinal in the mens toilet was a panel of one-way glass thst looked over the room where everyone ate. So you could pee and look at everyone else, at the same time, in privacy.

man... i'd spend hour in that thing if i were taking a crap... the idea of taking a crap and looking att eh outside world at the same time... it's just wild.