What? And celebrity toilets on the Internet? Yes, Zuzhai Village, Kaiping City, Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province has such a unique 3A-class landscape toilet. This online celebrity toilet is not only unique in shape, but also attracts many tourists to punch in. And also won the 2020 World Landscape Award (Best Small Building).
The annual International Landscape Architecture Award aims to commend landscape architects from all over the world and urge them to make more meaningful landscape architecture.
The predecessor of the network celebrity toilet is an old toilet in Wen Yuan. Because it is located in the center of the residential area, the design team decided to weaken the function of the toilet, highlight the architectural nature of the toilet, and build the toilet into a fresh and interesting public area for everyone to relax and make the toilet more than just a toilet.
Zuzhai Village is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese and diaolou. It is very famous in Jiangmen, and it is a tourist attraction in itself. However, in the recent village reconstruction, a lot of abandoned construction waste was produced, and red bricks and stones were everywhere. So the design team had a brainwave and simply used local materials. In the process of renovation, in order to continue the context of the original site, but also to respect the wishes of local villagers and maintain a sense of memory of the original toilet, the designer designed the toilet by two major methods: the original site renovation and the use of old things. They collected and cleaned up the old bricks and tiles, and then used them to build a hollow brick wall to mix and match a novel and designed new toilet.
The whole toilet is semi-circular with an open observation deck above it. Walking to the observation deck, you can see the ancient pagoda in the village, which is a place where tourists are concentrated.
Below the observation deck, there is a hollow wall made of steel mesh and waste bricks or porcelain bottles. These old things and advanced design concepts complement each other and bring a trend to Zuzhai Village. The hollow architectural form can not only reduce the weight of the wall, but also be more transparent and bright in visual effect. These old things carry the memories of the whole site in the past and are put into new buildings in the form of fragments, so that local villagers can find their daily life about the old times in these new buildings.
Looking closely again, the wall of the toilet shows the results of the past three cleanups and three dismantlements, cleaning 63 streets and lanes, 480 tons of garbage, dredging 3 rivers and 27 cubic meters, and rectifying the random connection of the three lines 12. The design concept of this toilet structure is also expounded. This is not so much a toilet as a display wall of Zuzhai Village, telling the update and change of Zuzhai Village in recent years.
Next to the toilet, the original mango tree is still preserved, and the mottled light and shadow are scattered through the mango tree, adding a unique flavor to the celebrity toilet on the Internet, which really makes people feel that this is really more than just a toilet. Such an excellent design is not an exaggeration to say that it is a memorial hall or a museum.
With the cultural background and fame of Kaiping Diaolou, and now with the blessing of an online celebrity toilet, the tourism of Zuzhai Village will definitely have a bright future. Nowadays, around the toilets of online celebrities, you can also see some unique homestays, and there are always tourists on holidays.
In fact, there is more than one toilet for online celebrities, Guangdong. In recent years, Guangdong has vigorously promoted the toilet revolution. In 20 17, each natural village is required to be equipped with 1-2 standardized toilets according to actual needs, and it is planned to build, renovate and expand 2,708 tourist toilets within three years. At present, there are beer toilets in Bavarian manor scenic spot in Heyuan, ocean toilets in Guangzhou and retro toilets in Baomo Garden. Therefore, the network celebrity toilet in Zuzhai Village of Jiangmen is only a starting point. In the future, I believe that many novel and interesting online celebrity toilets will emerge all over the country.
Perhaps in the future, there will be more public buildings with aesthetic value, which will become one landscape after another and add a lot of interest to people's lives.