Forget the concept of today’s bathroom because, in a few years, this will have evolved thanks to Petr Strejcek, a visionary in the Faculty of Architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague. His Elastigenic project won the “Hansgrohe Award 2014: Efficient Water Design” with a totally revolutionary bathroom concept.
This project addresses a basic problem of contemporary bathrooms: nooks and crannies that are hard to get to. The Elastigenic bathroom consists primarily of an elastic material that can be moulded at will to form such objects as washbasins, bathtubs, shower trays, towel racks, etc.
Thanks to its principal attribute, elasticity, this material can be returned to its original form as a smooth surface to make cleaning quick and easy. This is because of a telescoping mechanism under the surface that, moreover, closes the surface and prevents the formation of undesired gaps and sharp corners.
The opinion of the jury for the award was as follows: “An overall bathroom concept that is fascinating. The different objects that are formed from this material make a bathroom landscape that reminds us of nature. The space that the individual objects take up can be changed completely at any time”.
