architect: Klein Dytham architecture
location: Narita Airport Terminal 2 connection bridge
year: 2015
TOTO‘s new Gallery TOTO in the new Sky Lounge ‘WA‘ of Narita International Airport Terminal 2 doubles as a showroom for the iconic brand‘s state-of-the art designs while providing an essential facility for the modern traveller. Intrigued by the notion of the most private place simultaneously being in a very public place, Klein Dytham architecture conceived the Gallery as a clear glass box with four toilets each for men and woman, a fully accessible universal toilet and a nursing room for parents. The Gallery features a host of the latest digital technology including a fabric-like facade screen containing low resolution LED panels that transform each toilet exterior wall facing the public lounge space into a digital screen. A series of moving silhouetted images by contemporary dance company Strange Kinoko suggest that dance parties to cleaning sequences are happening inside the toilet spaces. The interiors showcase Kyocera ceramic sheets printed with large scale landscape images of iconic Japanese landscapes.
