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Project Sammaan

RMA Architects won the Open Innovation Challenge hosted by Project Sammaan, ‘[an] initiative dedicated to re-designing and improving sanitation facilities to slum communities across India, beginning in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack.’

Community Toilets for SPARC

Resulting from the design process of the Magic Bus Campus, this project to redesign public toilet for SPARC (The Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres)  a NGO working with slum rehabilitation and Housing right quarters in the city of Mumbai: Sparc has been commissioned by the city court to build over 300 public toilets in the slums of Mumbai.  However, most often these are built by engineers without any design input.  The project thus involved working with the existing government specifications but reconfiguring these to maximize the efficiency of the toilets as well as to respond the questions of gender, safety and association.  In addition, residential accommodation as well as a community space was introduced on the upper floor.