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Nighttoilet Chair

Chair during the day, toilet during the night.

Done in 30mins
Skill level easy

Create a comfortable chair that can additionally be used either as a night toilet or for storage. An easy way to save space in your home, especially if you don’t have your own toilet.

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Industrial Design | HTW Berlin

Authors · Wei Wang, Anastacia Hartinger, Lulama Bangani

What you need

material overview
material overview

How you make it

Put the tyre on top of the bigger bucket

Put sand inside that bucket for stability

Slide the smaller bucket in

Put the lid on the bucket

Put a cushion on top of the lid

Use it

Notes

This hack was developed in the dooiy project week @ HTW Berlin together with the community of eNkanini informal settlement in Lwandle/Cape Town.

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