Contemporary city life demands increasing amounts of infrastructure to meet everyday needs, ranging from parks and efficient transportation to the incorporation of public restroom facilities. However, these spaces often come with discomforts, including lack of accessibility, absence of privacy, and poor cleanliness. Recognizing these issues, various architects have taken on the challenge of transforming these spaces into functional and pleasant environments, experimenting with innovative proposals to address these needs.

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In recent years, with the accelerated urban development of public spaces in China, public washrooms have been assigned numerous new roles. Designers have come up with a variety of proposals which suggest turning public washrooms into a place where social gathering can be redefined, and temporary stay can be more engaging. Although the scale of public washrooms is significantly smaller than that of any other type of architecture, Chinese architects have been working innovatively on fitting the public washrooms into the changing social contexts. Below are a few examples that demonstrate some current architectural experiments with public washroom design in China.

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