POP-UP WINNIPEG PUBLIC TOILET DOWNTOWN WINNIPEG BIZ
Photography by Jacqueline Young, Stationpoint Photographic
Photography by Jacqueline Young, Stationpoint Photographic
Photography by Jacqueline Young, Stationpoint Photographic
Photography by Jacqueline Young, Stationpoint Photographic
The Pop-Up Winnipeg Public Toilet on the move at night through the city streets, August 2018. Photos by Keith Funk-Froese.
All renderings by BridgmanCollaborative Architecture
Year: 2018
Location: Winnipeg, MB
Partners: Downtown Winnipeg BIZ & Siloam Mission
Award: Winner, 2019 Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce Spirit of Winnipeg (Building & Design) Award; Plan Canada Award
Elderly people, disabled people, people with caregivers, women and children all have their lives limited by the lack of public toilets. The Pop-Up Public Toilet Initiative is a Downtown Winnipeg BIZ–funded venture answering the need for accessible washrooms in Winnipeg’s downtown core. The initiative aims to lead by example, through providing a clean, secure, well-maintained, and attended public washroom facility. This facility is designed to be temporary. The goal is to encourage publicity for future sponsored permanent toilets, through consciousness-raising, an iterative design process, and general public support. With this partnership, Siloam Mission also helped create more opportunities for those experiencing poverty and homelessness to gain work experience as they work toward progress and transition.
The Pop-Up’s highly visible and bright orange iconic structure (a shipping container) plays literally on “pop up.” It features acrylic glazed double walls, which slide *up* smoothly when the facility opens. When closed, the acrylic walls slide back *down.*
Media Coverage:
See our article published in Canadian Architect.
Read our Plan Canada article.
Location: Winnipeg, MB
Partners: Downtown Winnipeg BIZ & Siloam Mission
Award: Winner, 2019 Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce Spirit of Winnipeg (Building & Design) Award; Plan Canada Award
Elderly people, disabled people, people with caregivers, women and children all have their lives limited by the lack of public toilets. The Pop-Up Public Toilet Initiative is a Downtown Winnipeg BIZ–funded venture answering the need for accessible washrooms in Winnipeg’s downtown core. The initiative aims to lead by example, through providing a clean, secure, well-maintained, and attended public washroom facility. This facility is designed to be temporary. The goal is to encourage publicity for future sponsored permanent toilets, through consciousness-raising, an iterative design process, and general public support. With this partnership, Siloam Mission also helped create more opportunities for those experiencing poverty and homelessness to gain work experience as they work toward progress and transition.
The Pop-Up’s highly visible and bright orange iconic structure (a shipping container) plays literally on “pop up.” It features acrylic glazed double walls, which slide *up* smoothly when the facility opens. When closed, the acrylic walls slide back *down.*
Media Coverage:
See our article published in Canadian Architect.
Read our Plan Canada article.
- Pop-up toilet returns to Winnipeg streets, offers dignity and safety - CBC News (August 2019)
- Pop-up toilets provide safety and dignity to Winnipeg's most vulnerable - CHVN Radio (August 2019) (pdf)
- Pop-Up Toilet finds home where is it needed most - Winnipeg Free Press (August 2019) (pdf)
- Winnipeggers pumped about new public toilets: survey - Winnipeg Free Press (August 2018) (Read full article - pdf)
- Downtown biz getting plenty of buzz from popup toilet project - Winnipeg Sun (August 2018) (Read full article - pdf)
- Cities recognize basic sanitation is a right - Winnipeg Free Press (July 2018) (Read full article - pdf)
- Pop-up potties received well by Winnipeggers - Winnipeg Free Press (July 2018) (READ full article - pdf)
- Jobs provide dignity and purpose - Winnipeg Free Press (July 2018) (READ full article - pdf)
- Pop-up toilet breaking down bathroom barriers - CHVN Radio (June 2018) (READ article - pdf)
- When you gotta go downtown: pop-up toilet project offers free public facilities - Winnipeg Free Press (June 2018) (READ full article - pdf)
- Gotta go? Pop-up portable potty sets up in downtown - CBC News (June 2018) (READ full article - pdf)
- New public toilet popping up in Winnipeg - CTV News (June 2018) (READ article - pdf)
- Downtown BIZ, Siloam offer downtown relief; pop-up toilet available through August - Winnipeg Sun (June 2018) (READ full article - pdf)
- 'Practical and thought-provoking' pop-up public toilets open in Winnipeg - Global News (June 2018)
- Pop-up toilets to move around Downtown Winnipeg in pilot project - ChrisD Winnipeg News (June 2018) (READ article - pdf)
- Flushed with excitement: ... a human-rights campaign - Winnipeg Free Press (May 2018) (READ full feature article - pdf)
- Editorial: A place to go, when you need to go - Winnipeg Free Press (May 2018) (READ full article - pdf)
- Pop-up potties opening downtown - CHVN Radio (May 2018) (READ full article - pdf)